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• Standing Soldier went on to study with Nordmark at the Indian Art Center in Fort Sill Oklahoma during the late 1930s, along with other muralists, including Woody Crumbo.
• Standing Soldier earned a commission to paint the mural in the Blackfoot, Idaho, Post Office during the New Deal.
• During the 1930s the US government hired the artist to illustrate a series of primers in English and Lakota (Sioux) for use on reservations and in non-Native schools.
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Andrew Standing Soldier
United States, Oglala Lakota (Sioux), 1917 - 1967
• Standing Soldier went on to study with Nordmark at the Indian Art Center in Fort Sill Oklahoma during the late 1930s, along with other muralists, including Woody Crumbo.
• Standing Soldier earned a commission to paint the mural in the Blackfoot, Idaho, Post Office during the New Deal.
• During the 1930s the US government hired the artist to illustrate a series of primers in English and Lakota (Sioux) for use on reservations and in non-Native schools.
United States, Oglala Lakota (Sioux), born 1949
United States, born Ukraine, 1899 - 1988
United States, Santee Sioux-Winnebago, born 1952
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