JSIA00-10 Joe Starita - I Am a Man.nfo
General Information
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Title: "I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice
Author: Joe Starita
Read By: Armando Duran
Copyright: 2008
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - History - American - Memoirs
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapters
Source: OneClick MP3
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 10
Total Duration: 9:29:41
Total MP3 Size: 196.20
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 48 kbit/s 32000 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed
from their Nebraska homeland and marched to Oklahoma - known then as
Indian Territory - in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears.
"I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on
a 600-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional
burial grounds. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship
between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and
the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never
losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is an
account of people left for dead who survived injustice, disease, neglect,
starvation, humiliation, and termination. On another level, it is a
story of life and death, despair and fortitude, freedom and patriotism;
a story of Christian kindness and bureaucratic evil; a story of hope,
of a people still among us today, painstakingly preserving a cultural
identity that had sustained them for centuries before their encounter
with Lewis and Clark in the fall of 1804.
Before it ends, Standing Bear's long journey home also explores fundamental
issues of citizenship, constitutional protection, cultural identity,
and the nature of democracy - issues that continue to resonate loudly
in 21st-century America. It is a story that questions whether native
sovereignty, tribal-based societies, and cultural survival are compatible
with American democracy.
Standing Bear successfully used habeas corpus, the only liberty included
in the original text of the Constitution, to gain access to a federal
court and ultimately his freedom. This account aptly illuminates how
the nation's delicate system of checks and balances worked almost exactly
as the Founding Fathers envisioned, a system arguably out of whack and
under siege today.
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