Chief Standing Bear was a leader of the Ponca people in the late 1800s ... Postal Service with a stamp honoring him as an American icon,” Judi M. gaiashkibos, executive director of the Nebraska ...

a civil rights icon known for his "I Am a Man" speech. The stamp's release comes 146 years after the U.S. Army forcibly removed Chief Standing Bear and some 700 other members of the tribe from ...