My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

They aided Standing Bear who in April 1879 sued for a writ of habeas corpus in U. Susette (Bright Eyes) LaFlesche (by then married to Thomas Tibbles) and her brother Francis who later became an ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution accompanied Standing Bear on the speaking tour. The attorney John L.

S. His wife Susette Primeau was also a signatory on the 1879 writ that initiated the famous court case. 1834 – 1908) (Páⁿka iyé official orthography: Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ/Macunajin; other spellings: Ma-chú-nu-zhe Ma-chú-na-zhe or Mantcunanjin pronounced [mãtʃuꜜnãʒĩꜜ]) was a Ponca Native American chief who successfully argued in U.