Henry Standing Bear Explained

Henry Standing Bear
Tribe:	Oglala Lakota
Birth Name:	Mato Naji
Birth Date:	1874
Birth Place:	United States
Death Place:	United States
Relations:	Luther Standing Bear (brother)

Henry Standing Bear (– 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]

His brother was writer and actor Luther Standing Bear.

Notes and References

1. 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)
2. Web site: Crazyhorsememorial .org. Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. 2008. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150413112907/http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/images/2008commeration.jpg. 2015-04-13.
3. Book: Brown, Victoria Bissell . The Education of Jane Addams . 2004 . University of Pennsylvania Press . 978-0-8122-3747-4 . en.