Standing Bear was one of a small group of Lakota leaders of his generation who was born and raised in the oral traditions of their culture, educated in the Euro-American culture, and wrote significant historical accounts in English of their people and history. In 1902, he joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as an interpreter, chaperon, and performer with his wife. Raised traditionally at the age of 11, he was sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a federal boarding school for American Indian children in Pennsylvania, and became a member of the school’s first graduating class.Īfter graduating from Carlisle, Standing Bear opened a dry goods store on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where he organized public meetings to discuss treaties and current events. His family named him Óta Kté – Plenty Kill, but he later took his father’s first name, Matȟó Nážiŋ – Standing Bear as his surname.
Luther Standing Bear was born in 1868 on the Pine Ridge Reservation to an Oglala Lakota family.
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