Henry Standing Bear
Henry Standing Bear (c.1874-1953) ("Mato Naji") 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][3]
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Henry Standing Bear upon arrival at Carlisle, 1883
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The Society of American Indians was the first national American Indian rights organization run by and for American Indians.
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Carlisle alumni, founding conference of the National Congress of American Indians, 1944. Henry Standing Bear front and center.
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President Calvin Coolidge being made Sioux Chief by Henry Standing Bear. Rosebud Yellow Robe (center), 1927
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Crazy Horse Memorial, 2010
References
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Swanson, http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/images/2008commeration.jpg
- ↑ Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
