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The Poncas are the owners of a reservation of 96,000 acres in Dakota. They have been taken from it to the Indian Territory under a policy, now abandoned, of forcing the northern tribes into that Territory.
Now this mistake has already cost the lives of over 300 innocent people
White Eagle, Responsible for Change in Government Policy, is Dead — The white man had his turn at coveting the lands of the poor Poncas, and they were removed by the government, much against their will, to Oklahoma. White Eagle went to Washington and made his protest in language which at the time aroused the sympathy of a large proportion of the American people — of all who were not selfishly interested in cheating the Indians in trade and robbing them of their lands. He went back to his people, and had been well-nigh forgotten, but his appeal had an effect which has been felt to this day. Public sentiment had been aroused, and the government entered upon a new policy in its treatment of the Indian problem
My name is Brett Chapman. I'm a member of the Pawnee tribe and I also am Ponca and Kiowa.
White Eagle was asked about his own family losses. He said that it was July when his wife died. A few weeks later one of his children died, three weeks after that another died, then another, and since then his fourth and last child died. He said he was himself self sick with chills
When he took office in 1877, Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes knew little about the forced relocation of the Indian tribes in the United States, but with new knowledge gained from the plight of the Poncas, Hayes ended the policy of removal before leaving office
Last January, the Catalan president, Quim Torra, was photographed in Washington with a lawyer defending the rights of Native Americans, Brett A. Chapman, who tweeted that both had spoken of revitalization of the language, of "cultural identity, rights human beings and the non-violent movement of Catalonia to determine its own future as a unique people in Europe
'It is not only significant in Nebraska but also here in Oklahoma,' said Tulsa attorney Brett Chapman, the great-great-grandson of Ponca Chief White Eagle
