Lena ‘Hawk’ Standing Bear

Oglala Lakota Sioux

• Daughter of One Horse (Sung Owansi) and Rattling Stone
• She married Chief George Standing Bear after 1859
• Their children: Alfred, Lucy, Victoria, Emily and Anna
• She was listed as residing with her husband Chief George Standing Bear on the U.S. Indian Census Rolls taken on July 1, 1892 at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA
• Listed as residing with her husband Chief George Standing Bear on the U.S. Indian Census Rolls taken on June 30, 1895 at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pass Creek District, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA. < AncestrySharing >
• Listed as widowed on the U.S. Federal Census taken on June 21, 1900 at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pass Creek District, Shannon Co., South Dakota, USA. "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSTX-XTX : Thu Aug 03 00:40:33 UTC 2023), Entry for Lena Standing Bear and Ellen Standing Bear, 1900. Also see < AncestrySharing >

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• South Dakota State Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMH5-Q92 : 18 February 2021), Lena Standing Bear; citing State Historical Society, Pierre; FHL microfilm 2,283,935.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34631896/lena-standing_bear
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHJL-HC5
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mikestevens/genealogy/2010-p/p233.ht...
• Sprague, Donovan Arleigh. (2005). Rosebud Sioux. < GoogleBooks > Roaming Nation (One Horse) was the second wife of Chief George Standing Bear. His third wife was her sister, Lena Roaming Nation (AKA Her Eagle Blanket and Hawk)
• https://amertribes.proboards.com/thread/1593 Luther Standing Bear Family

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Notes

https://amertribes.proboards.com/post/13184/thread

Here´s a tentative list... just for discussion, so please be careful when copying it, there might be errors:

George Standing Bear aka Chief Standing Bear (1830 -1898)

Wife 1:
Pretty Face (of the Swift Bear band, left SB when he married the Roaming Nation sisters)

Children:
Luther Standing Bear (Plenty Kill)

Wife 2:
Roaming Nation aka Her Eagle Blanket (father: One Horse died 1877, mother: Rattling Stone Woman)

Children:
Feather Weaver
Henry Standing Bear (Spotted/Sorrel Horse aka Kills Little)
Ellis Standing Bear
Yellow Bird
Two Staffs
Willard Standing Bear (aka Shot to Pieces aka Never Defeated)

Wife 3
Lena Roaming Nation aka Hawk aka Her Eagle Blanket (younger sister of wife2)

Children:
Anna
Emily
Alfred Standing Bear
Victoria
Lucy

was Edith Standing Bear a daughter or grand daughter, or was that an Edith from a different family?

References

• Sprague, Donovan Arleigh. (2005). Rosebud Sioux. < GoogleBooks > Roaming Nation (One Horse) was the second wife of Chief George Standing Bear. His third wife was her sister, Lena Roaming Nation (AKA Her Eagle Blanket and Hawk).
• The Norwalk Hour. Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. October 6, 1906. Page 6. “Returning to his mother’s wigwam”. (document attached) “Alfred Standing Bear … the youngest child of his mother and her favorite … sister of Crazy Horse … “