Luther Standing Bear

AKA: Chief Luther Standing Bear

Born ≈ 1868-12 Rosebud Reservation, SD (USA)

Died 1939-02-20
Los Angeles County, CA (USA)

Buried
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Sioux Chief, no relation to Standing Bear of the Ponca. An important chronicler, alongside figures such as Charles Eastman, of Native American life for a generation that knew both the oral traditions of tribal life and a modern education, some of it in very unpleasant Native American boarding schools. Luther Standing Bear is an important historian of the Sioux and through his books, articles, and speeches, an important Native American figure in the broader Progressive political movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

He was also a notable musician and a participant in late versions of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. He was in a number of Hollywood movies, and died in Hollywood.

Places Lived

Rosebud Reservation, SD
Pine Ridge Reservation, SD
Carlisle, PA
Los Angeles, CA
Blackbird, NE

Author Of

Biography
Nonfiction

Keywords

Children's Nonfiction; Autobiography

Education

Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, PA

Occupation

Writer
Actor

Places Worked

Tom Ince Studios, Hollywood, CA

Honors

“150 Notable Nebraskans”, Number 2 on the Journal Star Sesquicentennial List of Significant Nebraskans

Bibliography

My People the Sioux. 1928.
My Indian Boyhood. 1931.
Land of the Spotted Eagle. 1933.
Stories of the Sioux. 1934.
Twenty True Stories.

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