Chief Standing Bear(1868-1939)
- Actor
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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