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A life in pictures

Moments from Standing Bears' life, shared by the people who walked it with him.

Standing Bears in prayer, wearing the bear medallion
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro in Tokyo, Japan
Standing Bears with his spiritual grandfather, Elder Tony StoneHawk of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Nation
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro and Karen
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro
Standing Bears with Jim GrayWolf
Standing Bears tying the ribbons on the lodge frame near Montezuma Wells
Standing Bears playing the flute
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
The way of the peaceful warrior. Healing has no enemies. Send healing to everyone, Wayne William Snellgrove, Saulteaux Tribe, Fishing Lake First Nation
The more love we carry, the lighter the load, Wayne William Snellgrove, Saulteaux Tribe
No one needs more love than the one who has none to give, Wayne William Snellgrove, Saulteaux Tribe, Fishing Lake First Nation
Standing Bears with his father, Richard Snellgrove
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Standing Bears and his grandfather, Elder Tony StoneHawk
Standing Bears as a boy
Standing Bears as a boy
Standing Bears and his brother Tom
Standing Bears with his mother and his brother Tom
Standing Bears, two-time US national champion open water swimmer
Standing Bears, two-time US national champion open water swimmer
Standing Bears with his son, Alexander
Standing Bears among the flags of all nations. UNITY EARTH Peace Week, Japan, 2024
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro
Standing Bears with Jenny Jones
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Standing Bears, Wayne William Snellgrove, with his uncle
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro in Sedona, Arizona
Standing Bears with Zenka Caro
Standing Bears with the meditation group
Standing Bears wearing a We Are the Medicine shirt signed Wayne Standing Bear
Zenka Caro and Standing Bears, Wayne William Snellgrove
Standing Bears in Portugal
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears, Indigenous leader
Standing Bears at Zenka Caro's house
Standing Bears with his brother, Tom Snellgrove
Standing Bears, Kà Neè Pa Wit Makwa
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears
Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears

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A Life Remembered

With Ben Bowler, Tracy Potter, Daryl Henderson, Becky Suzik, Robert, and Nora.

From Separation to Ceremony

In Bear Skin

A film by Laetitia Merli · Vision Globale

Full Circle

The story of Wayne Snellgrove and the 60s Scoop · Dina Six TV

Wayne William Snellgrove, Standing Bears — Indigenous leader

Follow His Path

Where he shared his medicine

Kept here as an archive of the reach he built, not actively posted to, but still his, and still worth seeing.

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