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]

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. Swanson, http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/images/2008commeration.jpg
  3. Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
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