Trailing the First Indian Person

“Yes, we have Standing Bear, too” Betty Davis tells me when I spy the photograph of the legendary Ponca chief at the Douglas County Historical Society in Omaha, Nebraska. Yeah, well, everybody knows that, or should. But then I think ... well, Ponca City, Oklahoma, has him, too. Okay, Ponca City has a 22-foot-tall bronze statue sculpted by one of the great Western artists of our era, Oreland C. Joe, who isn’t a Ponca but a Navajo-Southern Ute, and doesn’t live in Oklahoma or Nebrask