Statue of Standing Bear

Statue of Standing Bear
Statue of Standing Bear
Artist	Benjamin Victor
Medium	Bronze sculpture
Subject	Standing Bear
Location	National Statuary Hall Collection, Washington, D.C., United States
	38°53′23″N 77°00′35″W / 38.8896°N 77.0096°W

In 2019, the U.S. state of Nebraska donated a bronze sculpture of Standing Bear by Benjamin Victor to the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue is installed in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C.^[1]

The statue of Standing Bear replaced a statue of William Jennings Bryan by Rudulph Evans, which was similarly donated to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 1937, but relocated in 2019 to the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward, Nebraska.

Background

Standing Bear (

Elmer Dundy

ruled on 12 May 1879 that "an Indian is a PERSON", and ordered the group to be released.

Description

The bronze statue stands over 9 ft (2.7 m) high, on a low black granite pedestal. The subject is portrayed in

pipe tomahawk in his left hand. The right hand is outstretched, to emphasize words spoken at the trial in May 1897 through his interpreter Susette La Flesche

: "My hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain. If you pierce your hand, you also feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be the same color as yours. The same god made us both. I am a man."

The front of the pedestal bears the inscription: "NEBRASKA/ CHIEF STANDING BEAR/ Manchú-Nanzhín/ c. 1829–1908", with quotations from Standing Bear's statement to the court inscribed on the sides.

There are two other bronze statues by

statue of Norman Borlaug

donated by Iowa in 2014.

References

^ "Standing Bear". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.

[AOC-1] "Standing Bear". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.

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