Standing Bear Family

[Dietmar]

Welcome Stephanie,

you probably have found earlier conversations on Little Hawk here:

www.american-tribes.com/Lakota/BIO/LittleHawk.htm

We have got a thread on the Miniconjou Big Crow, son of Black Shield. I guess you refer to another Big Crow, don´t you?

Best wishes

Dietmar

[Dietmar]

Amanda,

welcome to our site! Please stay with us, I hope we will be able to share more about the Standing Bear Family at our message boards in the future.

Best wishes

Dietmar

[Dietmar]

Here is a "new" picture, offered by Heritage Auctions. I´m not sure how the two Standing Bears in the picture are related to the better known Luther or Henry though.

[grahamew]

“Victoria Conroy, Lena and Emily” Portrait of two Sioux women and a girl, wearing dresses embellished with bone and porcupine quill beads. Written on back: “Original picture brought to museum by Lone Eagle. Lone Eagle’s wife was niece of Victoria Conroy. Original picture is marked “My Sister, that’s Lena and me.” Picture taken 1905. Victoria was 40 at that time and Lena was 7 and sister Emily was 36. Victoria made the beaded dress in the Sioux collection at the Pioneers Museum.”

www.springsgov.com/fmi/xsl/record_detail.xsl?-db=cspmcollection&-lay=CGS&-recid=68207&-find=



Victoria was (George) Standing Bear's daughter and sister to Luther (and second cousin to Crazy Horse)

[jhafnor]

Note that Richard or Dick "Jumbo" Standing Bear Jr. passed away Sept. 7, 2016 in White River, S.D. He was born in 1927. I had the pleasure of interviewing him twice about five nears ago in pursuit of more information on James Stands For Them ... this for the upcoming historical novel Lakota Cowboy. Dick was a gentlemanly and kindly old man. He remembered attending feasts, dances and other gatherings at the Stands For Them house near Blackpipe Creek (near Corn Creek community). I believe Dick was the son of Richard Standing Bear, born 1898.

[tmorningstar]

Does anybody know anything about Lucy, George's last daughter? My Oglala grandfather, John Sherman (passed away now) who grew up on an Osage Reservation in Oklahoma, talked about his Grandmother Lucy Standing Bear (who taught him Lakota language & traditions). Our family has long assumed it was George's daughter, but we, are not sure. Any information about her would be welcome.

[Historian]

Sicangu Lakota and Osage family at Woolaroc Lodge near Bartlesville, Oklahoma - 1930
*Standing L-R: Eugene George Standing Bear (Sicangu Lakota), the son of Luther Standing Bear & Laura Cloud Shield, with his wife One Eagle or Mrs. Mary Nora Lookout-Standing Bear (Osage), and his mother-in-law Mrs. Julia Pryor Mongrain-Lookout (Osage), the wife of Fred Lookout
*Sitting: Mrs. Three Soldiers (Sicangu Lakota), the mother of Eugene George Standing Bear, holding her grandson, Child Chief or George Eugene Standing Bear (Sicangu Lakota/Osage), the son of Eugene George Standing Bear & Mary Nora Lookout

[triciamspenc]

hello everyone. so i had recently asked my uncle if there was native in my family line and he said yes and sent me a photo of a board with luther standing bear on it and made me wonder if i am in any way related to him. i am intrested in finding out more about luther standing bear and what his family tree would be. if anyone has a way for me to dig further in my familys history i would be verry intrested in a conversation!

[itcmark]

Hi, I was a friend of Eugene Standingbear in the 1970s when he was in his 70s and I was in my 20s working on small-town newspapers. I wrote a book about his remarkable life that never got published. Lately I've been rewriting it as a series of articles on one of my websites... now that I'm almost 70. :-) Stumbled on a lot of good information here in your amertribes chatrooms. Many, many thanks. If you see anything in my articles that needs additions or corrections, I'd be grateful for comments. Here's a link to the first in the series, if anyone's interested:
noblesavageworld.com/2018/08/26/chief-the-noble-savage-life-of-gene-standingbear-1/

[Dietmar]

Welcome and thanks for joining our boards!

[itcmark]

Thanks for this wonderful dialog. I wrote a book about Eugene Standingbear some 40 years ago, which never got published. I got it out of storage this year and am rewriting it on one of my websites. I'm running across lots of inconsistencies with dates, names, and other details. Your website and its dialogs have helped, but there's still a lot of sorting out to do. If anyone's interested, I've posted 4 articles so far, and will probably post about 15 total before it's all finished. You can read them here: www.noblesavageworld.com. On the right of the page you'll find a list of the Standingbear articles. (The Osage article explains why he changed his last name from Standing Bear to Standingbear back in the 1920s.) Any impressions or feedback would be very, very welcome, either on this site or that one, or via personal email: [e-mail]. Wolakota! Mark Macy, Louisville Colorado

[Californian]

I think that this one should be billed Standing Bear (Senior or the father) not Luther - it is dated ca. 1880's/1890's, a portrait of a middle aged man in period clothing. It also had appeared on Luther Standing Bear's Wikipedia page where I opted to enter a correction some time in the past

[Historian]

Oct 26, 2018 16:28:39 GMT -5 Californian said:

I think that this one should be billed Standing Bear (Senior or the father) not Luther - ca. 1880's/1890's portrait of a middle aged man in period clothing.
It also had appeared on Luther Standing Bear's Wikipedia page where I opted to enter a correction some time in the past

Yes, this is indeed as photo of Standing Bear (aka Chief Standing Bear, aka George Standing Bear), who was born in 1830 as Sicangu Lakota, and later moved to Pine Ridge among the Oglala Lakota, which is why his son Plenty Kill (aka Luther Standing Bear) has been identified more often as being Oglala Lakota.

[Californian]

thank you Historian, am grateful and appreciate it. On the Wikipedia page I also did add the Sicangu affiliation as he or at least his father was a hereditary chief of that group, albeit living among the Oglalas of Pine Ridge Agency.

[prettyrose]

Random, but all I wanted to say was him and his family are so adorable 😍 that's all ✌