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Luther Standing Bear (Óta Kté or "Plenty Kill," also known as Matȟó Nážiŋ or "Standing Bear") was a Sičháŋǧu Lakota activist, actor, author, and educator, and Oglála Lakota Chief. Standing Bear was born in December 1868 on the Spotted Tail Agency, Rosebud, Dakota Territory, and raised in the Sioux tradition. His father, George Standing Bear, was a hereditary Lakota Chief, a title Standing Bear briefly assumed in 1905. In 1879 Standing Bear was one of the first students enrolled at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, where he chose the forename Luther. Notwithstanding the harm to Indigenous children caused by forced assimilation in government-run boarding schools, Standing Bear served as an interpreter and recruited students from the Pine Ridge Reservation on behalf of Carlisle school founder Richard Henry Pratt.
Standing Bear was discharged from the Carlisle school in 1885, and he subsequently worked at several day schools on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations. In 1902 he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and toured in Britain for a year. Standing Bear then pursued a career in acting, and between 1916 and 1935, he was in thirteen movies and became a member of the Screen Actors Guild. In 1926, along with other Indigenous actors in Hollywood, he created the "War Paint Club." Ten years later, Standing Bear joined Jim Thorpe in creating the Indian Actors Association to protect rights and characters of Native American actors from defamation or ridicule.
In addition to acting, Standing Bear also published a number of books aimed at educating the public about Native American culture and the federal government’s mistreatment of Indigenous people, including "My People the Sioux" (1928), "My Indian Boyhood" (1931), "Land of the Spotted Eagle" (1933), "What the Indian Means to America" (1933), and "Stories of the Sioux" (1934).
Luther Standing Bear died of the flu on February 20, 1939 while on the set of the film "Union Pacific" in Huntington Park, California.
Author. Actor. Born Ota Kte, son of Standing Bear, an hereditary chief of the Lakota. Until the age of about ten, he lived a traditional life on the plains. At about age eleven in 1879, his father enrolled him in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Once there, he was compelled to choose a name from a list on the wall. He randomly pointed at the symbols on a wall and named himself Luther. His father's name became his surname. In 1884, following his final term at Carlisle, Standing Bear moved home to the Rosebud Reservation where he was hired as an assistant at the reservation's school. In 1891 took charge of a reservation day school at Allen, South Dakota in the neighboring Pine Ridge Reservation. In 1902 he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and toured in Britain for a year. His 1903 season, however, was cut short by a train accident that killed several of the troupe, Standing Bear was himself badly injured. In 1905 he inherited his father's chieftanship. By 1912 he had moved to California, where he worked for Tom Ince Studios and made his screen debut in ‘Ramona' in 1916. He appeared in a dozen films including ‘The Santa Fe Trail' in 1930, ‘Texas Pioneers' in 1932, ‘Circle of Death' and ‘Cyclone of the Saddle' in 1935. He was elected president of the Indian Actors' Association. He is probably better remembered, however, for four books he wrote about the Sioux; ‘My People, the Sioux' published in 1928, ‘My Indian Boyhood' in 1931, ‘Land of the Spotted Eagle' in 1933, and ‘Stories of the Sioux' in 1934. He was a member of the League for Justice to the American Indian and toured on the lecture circuit as an advocate for Indian rights. He died in Huntington, California, during the filming of the movie ‘Union Pacific.'
Luther Standing Bear, born Plenty Kill, was a Oglala Lakota Native American writer and actor, and on of the first students of the controversial Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Pennsylvania. He began his entertainment career as an interpreter, dancer, and horseback rider with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which traveled the country at the turn of the century. From 1910 to the 1930s he starred in several western films. He is the author of My People the Sioux (1928), Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933), and Stories of the Sioux (1934).
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Luther Standing Bear (Óta Kté or "Plenty Kill," also known as Matȟó Nážiŋ or "Standing Bear") was a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota chief notable in American history as a Native American author, educator, philosopher, and actor of the twentieth century. Standing Bear fought to preserve Lakota heritage and sovereignty; he was at the forefront of a Progressive movement to change government policy toward Native Americans.
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 white culture, and wrote significant historical accounts in English of their people and history. Standing Bear's discussions of his early life, years at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Wild Westing with Buffalo Bill, and life on government reservations presented a Native American viewpoint during the Progressive Era in American history.
John N. Choate photographs of Carlisle Indian School
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John N. Choate photographs of Carlisle Indian School
Photographs by John N. Choate mostly documenting the United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The images include portraits of students, parents, staff and other visitors, as well as interior and exterior images of the school, buildings, and classrooms. Choate also had a thriving commercial practice outside of the Indian School, producing studio portraiture as well many photographs of buildings, farms and industry in and around the town of Carlisle, as well as images of Dickinson College. Some of the photographs in the collection were made by other photographers and perhaps collected by Choate. A few copper plates prepared for publications are also included in the collection.
Correspondence, primarily with: W.P. Bonney, Red Fox Skiuhushu, Louis Mann, Mourning Dove [Catherine Galler, Christine Quintasket ], Buffalo Ben Olney, Chief Um-tee-bee; journals, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, manuscripts and printed material containing historical and anthropological information on the Pacific Northwest, mostly regarding the Nez Percés and Yakimas, Indian agents, government officials, anthropologists and historians relative to the Nez Percé Indian War of 1877 and the Indian war of the 1850s.
Series 6 includes draft versions of Mourning Dove's legends and tales.
Series 7 included Mourning Dove Correspondence, 1914-1935, undated, chiefly consists of correspondence, printed items, and fragments relating to Cogewea, publishing issues, and her association with McWhorter.
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26 Linear feet of shelf space (51 Boxes)
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My Indian boyhood : contract, 1930.
True stories of the Sioux : contract, 1932. Published title, Stories of the Sioux.
Includes business correspondence, 1932
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Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?-1939
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Richard Henry Pratt papers
Pratt, Richard Henry. Richard Henry Pratt papers. 1862-1972.
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Richard Henry Pratt papers
The collection includes letter-press books, writings, diaries, notes, photographs, and drawings. The papers largely relate to Pratt's work with and theories on the education of American Indians and his involvement with the Carlisle Indian School. Included is material relating to the controversies surrounding his work and much relating to Indians and Indian life in general. There are a group of Indian photographs and drawings, and papers relating to members of Pratt's family.
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23.18 Linear Feet ((102 boxes) + 3 broadsides)
Includes correspondence by and photographs of Luther Standing Bear.
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Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?-1939
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Student Records, 1879–1918
Student Records, 1879–1918
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Student Records, 1879–1918
This series consists of separate files for each student containing letters received, copies of letters sent, applications for enrollment, cards designated as "Descriptive and Historical Record of Student," promotion certificates (including ratings in subjects), records of "outings," medical and dental records, form reports concerning post school careers, records from other schools, information forms concerning eligibility for Federal aid, clippings, photographs, and other records concerning individual students.
The records relate to enrollment, transportation, progress at school, "outings," health, financial affairs, withdrawals from school, careers after leaving school, special problems, and other subjects. The quantity and type of records for individual students vary; there are, in general, more records for the later years than the earlier ones.
The Poets Garden records contains publications, letters, diaries, and memorabilia of the literary group created by Los Angeles poet Ruth Le Prade. The collection also contains materials relating to the poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940) and the labor and socialist activist Eugene Debs.
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90.0 Linear feet; 98 boxes, 1 map-case folder
Description of Series 21. Luther Standing Bear: Series contains Standing Bear's correspondence with Europeans about his works, especially My People, the Sioux, and their foreign translations, as well as with some of his publishers. Also included in this series are some Native American artifacts, a scrapbook containing clippings and photographs about Standing Bear, Native American and Standing Bear's friend Bill Hart, and a notepad dated 1922.
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Standing Bear, Carl
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Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers, ca. 1935-1998 Circa 1935-1998
Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers, ca. 1935-1998, Circa 1935-1998
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Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers, ca. 1935-1998 Circa 1935-1998
The papers contain correspondence, research and teaching notes, data (card and slip) files, published and unpublished manuscripts by Lounsbury and others, books and reprints, sound recordings, and computer programs and files. Correspondents include: William N. Fenton, Mary R. Haas, William C. Sturtevant, Morris Swadesh, and Carl F. Voegelin. Roughly one-quarter of the collection relates to Iroquoian languages and includes much WPA Oneida Project material. Research into the Cherokee language, South American languages, and kinship structures is also well represented. Floyd Lounsbury's wife, Masako Yokoyama Lounsbury, is represented by a smaller amount of material relating to linguistic research in Shanghai.
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