1. What factors contributed to the U.S. government's policy removing Native Americans from their ancestral lands?

2. What are 2 explanations for the title of the story?

3. how did the legal principle of habeas corpus advance the cause of the Ponca? What arguments did the government it?

4. How has our society's understanding of the phrase? "all men are created equal" changed since it was first written in the declaration of Independence? How does the Ponca's story contribute to that understanding? Are there limits to- our understanding of the phrase today? Explain.