Henry Standing Bear (c. 1874 – 1953) ("Matȟó Nážiŋ") was an Oglala Lakota Chief. A founding member of the Society of American Indians (1911–1923), he recruited and commissioned Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to build the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.[1][2] He was a resident of Chicago's Hull House.[3]
Henry Standing Bear | |
|---|---|
Henry Standing Bear in 1879 | |
| Oglala Lakota leader | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mato Naji 1874 United States |
| Died | October 17, 1953 (aged 78–79) United States |
| Relations | Luther Standing Bear (brother) |
His brother was writer and actor Luther Standing Bear.
References
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Henry Standing Bear.
- ^ Luther Standing Bear, "My People the Sioux," (1928), p.viii. Joseph Agonito, "Lakota Portraits: Lives of the Legendary Plains People" (hereinafter "Agonito") (2011), p.235. Donovin Arleigh Sprague, "Rosebud Sioux," p. 40 (2005)
- ^ "Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation". Crazyhorsememorial .org. 2008. Archived from the original on 2015-04-13.
- ^ Brown, Victoria Bissell (2004). The Education of Jane Addams. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3747-4.
This biographical article about an Indigenous person of North America is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |