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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.
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 ...
His first son Bear Shield died at the reservation, so Standing Bear set out with several others to bury his son's remains at his birthplace in Nebraska. The group was arrested and detained by Brigadier General George Crook at Fort Omaha for having left the reservation without permission from the U.S. government.
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 .
An elderly U.K. man was reportedly killed while walking his dog over the weekend, and local authorities have now arrested five children — all under the age of 15 — in connection with the killing.
Eric Pedersen, the village's Department of Public Works superintendent, was arrested and later booked at the Waukesha County Jail for battery, disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property and ...
Five Kentucky residents are behind bars for allegedly imprisoning a 2-year-old boy inside a caged area littered with feces and urine within their home, according to police. ... Codey Johnson, 29 ...
Tibbles met the acquaintance of Chief Standing Bear on March 30, 1879, after the Chief and some 30 Ponca Indians were placed under arrest and were being held by order of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz, for fleeing the Indian territory in Oklahoma to their original lands.