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Luther Standing Bear (Óta Kté or "Plenty Kill," also known as Matȟó Nážiŋ or "Standing Bear", 1868 – 1939) was a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota author, educator, philosopher, and actor. He worked to preserve Lakota culture and sovereignty, and was at the forefront of a Progressive movement to change government policy toward Native Americans .
The 63 acres (25 ha) Standing Bear Park [19] in Ponca City, Oklahoma was named in his honor. It is the site of the Standing Bear Museum and Education Center, as well as a 22 feet (6.7 m) high bronze statue of the chief. In 1977, Standing Bear was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. [20] [21] In 1977, Standing Bear Lake opened.
The woman, 62, was killed by three canines that descended on the couple’s St. Louis home around 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to St. Louis Metropolitan Police.
Chief Standing Bear took office after the Osage received a landmark settlement from the federal government to settle claims of mismanagement of revenues due tribal members from leased mineral rights. [ citation needed ] Under his administration, the Osage Nation worked to increase their communal landholdings, acquiring more than 50,000 acres of ...
Three men were arrested in the 1989 killing of a woman in Missouri after someone came forward with a tip over three decades later, authorities said. A tip led to charges against 3 men in the 1989 ...
Brian Dorsey was executed in April for killing his cousin and her husband in 2006. Missouri is scheduled to execute another man, Marcellus Williams, on Sept. 24, even though Williams is still awaiting a hearing on his claim of innocence in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle.
Patty Prewitt was serving a life sentence for the 1984 murder of her husband in Holden, Missouri Missouri’s longest-serving female prisoner, serving life for murdering her husband, is released ...
The Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge is a bridge across the Missouri River at the Nebraska–South Dakota border. Located near Niobrara, Nebraska , not far downstream from the confluence of the Niobrara River with the Missouri, it joins Nebraska Highway 14 to South Dakota Highway 37 .