Standing Bear

Chief of the Sioux, lecturer, and writer on Indian life. As a young boy he lived in Nebraska and South Dakota. At the age of eleven he was sent to the Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. When his people, the Ponea Sioux tribe were relocated to land in the Oklahoma Indian Territory, many of them died. Standing Bear, Joseph La Flesche, and his daughter Suzette La Flesche took to the lecture circuit in protest and gained the sympathy of many people and some restitution was made to the tribe. Later he was part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and a movie actor. He wrote My People, the Sioux, My Indian Boyhood, Land of the Spotted Eagle, and Twenty True Stories. He was born in 1868 and died in 1947.

Life was a glorious thing for great contentment comes with the feeling of friendship and kinship with the living things about you. The white man seems to look upon all animal life as enemies, while we look upon them as friends and benefactors. They were one with the great mystery. And so were we.