<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Chief Washakie earned his battle scars in the service of the Great White Father, who—for once at least—kept faith with an Indian</span> </span></p>
<p>When the Army arrested a chief of the Ponca Tribe in 1878 for leaving their reservation, he sued the federal government and won — the first time courts recognized that a Native American had legal rights.</p>
