The Cherokee Nation Film Office and the state of Nebraska are helping filmmaker Andrew Troy bring the journey of Ponca Chief Standing Bear to the big screen.
Troy’s narrative feature film, I Am A Man: The True Story of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, has received final funding to begin filming in historically significant locations, including Nebraska and the Cherokee Nation Reservation in Oklahoma. “I Am a Man is an important Native American story that needs to be told.
We are proud to offer our film incentive to such a project,” said Jennifer Loren, senior director of Cherokee Nation Film and Original Content. “CNFO looks forward to becoming a hub for Native American storytelling, and this is just the beginning.” With formal approval from the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, the historical drama depicts the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear v.
the United States of America, which helped establish the rights for all Native Americans to be considered “human beings” under U.S.
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