Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

9/1/1983 - 3/31/1988

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$374,323.00 (approved)
$374,323.00 (awarded)


The 1879 Trial of Chief Standing Bear (Production: TV Drama)

FAIN: GN-21515-83

NET Foundation for Television, Inc. (Lincoln, NE 68503-1409)
Eugene H. Bunge (Project Director: December 1982 to October 1988)

To support production of a two-hour dramatization of the 1879 trial of the Ponca Chief Standing Bear, which helped to establish the principle that Native Americans are entitled to protection under the U.S. Constitution.