Standing Bear is perhaps best known for his artwork, including illustrating the 1932 edition of Black Elk Speaks.
[2] His father died when he was four, and he lived with his mother, sister, grandparents, and uncle.
[2] His wife and baby daughter were killed at the Battle of Wounded Knee, a massacre in 1890.
He was on tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West at the time, in Vienna.
Louise and her parents later immigrated to the United States, living at the Pine Ridge Reservation.