| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform. By Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x + 211 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

By the 1870s, the Poncas appeared to have no alternative to leaving their homes in northeastern Nebraska. White settlers had taken most of the nation's land, while bad harvests and Lakota raids had brought the Poncas close to starvation. In 1875, Ponca chiefs tried to move their people to the nearby Omaha reserve, but the misleading agreement they signed with the United States consigned them instead to a barren reservation in Indian Territory. Beset by hunger and illness that killed one-third of the tribe, many Poncas fled to seek refuge with the Omahas. In January 1879, Chief Standing Bear, hoping to honor his dying son's request for burial in his native soil, joined their exodus.

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