1930's Education | Land of the Spotted Eagle

Nonfiction work

By: Luther Standing Bear

Date: 1933

Source: Standing Bear, Luther. Land of the Spotted Eagle. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1933. Reprinted in Native Americans. William Dudley, ed. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1998, 199–201.

About the Author: Luther Standing Bear (1868–1939), son of an Oglala Sioux chief, was born in December 1868 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He was first educated on the reservation, but was later sent away to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Following graduation, Standing Bear worked as a teacher, clerk, minister, rancher, and interpreter for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show before his success as a writer. He wrote several memoirs and was published widely during the 1930s, speaking out for Native American rights. Toward the end of his life, he worked in Hollywood as an actor. He...