Luther Standing Bear was an Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief who, among a few rare others such as Charles Eastman, Black Elk and Gertrude Bonnin
occupied the rift between the way of life of the Indigenous people of
the Great Plains before, and during, the arrival and subsequent spread
of the European pioneers. Raised in the traditions of his people until
the age of eleven, he was then educated at the Carlisle Indian
Industrial Boarding School of Pennsylvania, where he learned the english
language and way of life. (Though a National Historical Landmark,
Carlisle remains a place of controversy in Native circles.)
