I Am A Man

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Across
  1. 6. unhealthy, alien terrain to which the Ponca were marched under military coercion during spring 1877 (chapter 3)
  2. 12. i.e., Susette La Flesche, a highly accomplished Omaha educator, devoted friend and speaker on behalf of the Ponca (chapter 7)
  3. 13. died early during the Ponca removal; community of Neligh Nebraska still places flowers upon her grave (chapter 3)
  4. 14. sympathetic yet hesitant U.S. president who personally met with Standing Bear and Susette La Fresche in November 1877 (chapter 4)
  5. 16. Interior Secretary who glossed over the Indians' removal tragedy; Standing Bear's response upon hearing of his death: "Good" (chapter 9)
Down
  1. 1. well-settled, "Sacred Head" agricultural people who lived upon land along the Niobrara river (chapter 1)
  2. 2. son of Standing Bear, whose father promised to bury him upon Ponca ancestral lands in Nebraska (chapter 5)
  3. 3. Constitutional Amendment that served as basis for Standing Bear's case in court, as capably argued by attorney John Lee Webster (chapter 6)
  4. 4. ill-informed, pathologically dishonest federal agent who informed the Ponca of their impending removal in January 1877 (chapter 2)
  5. 5. Standing Bear's brother whose death was in fact a "cowardly, willful murder" and in no way justified as claimed by agent Whiteman (chapter 7)
  6. 7. Omaha newspaper journalist, publicist, and ardent reformer who organized a legal case and publicity tour on the Ponca's behalf (chapter 5)
  7. 8. first stop on Standing Bear's second speaking tour during where he was generously treated to roast beef - albeit too much of it (chapter 7)
  8. 9. decorated Civil War general who cleverly worked to help Chief Standing Bear through his quiet suggestion of a writ of habeas corpus (chapter 6)
  9. 10. established land-holding in severalty in 1887, authorizing the partition of tribal lands into family units (chapter 9)
  10. 11. belligerent nation awarded nearly all Ponca lands by U.S. government in 1868 (chapter 2)
  11. 15. federal judge who ruled in favor of Standing Bear in the 1879 decision of Machunahzha v George Crook (chapter 6)