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This art print is made from an historical photo of Wan-Bli-Ko-Ki-Pa (The Eagle Fears Him) or (Afraid of the Eagle) or (One Afraid of the Eagle), taken by photographer Alexander Gardner during a Dakota Delegation's visit to Washington, DC in May 1872.

Afraid of Eagle was a brother to the prominent Hunkpapa headman Broken Bear Rib, and a member of his band. He lived from about 1828-1903. Afraid of Eagle was among twenty-six lodges that departed the Standing Rock Agency with Kill Eagle in April 1876 to go on a buffalo hunt. They spent the summer with the northern bands and were present at the Little Bighorn.

The fact that Afraid of Eagle’s name does not appear in the Standing Rock Agency issue record that December suggests that he was part of a group of about 100 indians that fled north to join Sitting Bull in Canada in October 1876.

Afraid of Eagle apparently returned to the U. S. with Rain in the Face’s band who surrendered at Fort Keogh in October 1880. After five months near that military post, they were transported by steamboat to Fort Yates and then transferred the following month to the adjacent Standing Rock Agency.

In the Sitting Bull Surrender Census for September 1881, Afraid of Eagle is listed in Rain in the Face’s band together with his wife, Bad Tempered, and their two children, Two Horse and Pretty Pipe, as well as two grandchildren.

Soon after arriving at the Standing Rock Agency, Afraid of Eagle and his family left Rain in the Face’s band. Rather than returning to his brother's camp, however, he joined High Eagle, another of the agency bands.

He lived the remainder of his life at Standing Rock. His name disappears from the agency census records in 1903, suggesting that he died in late 1902 or early 1903. Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), was born in Scotland. Gardner worked as a jeweler, newspaper publisher and secretary for a project to found a utopian community in Ireland before immigrating to the United States in 1856, where he became Matthew Brady’s photography assistant.

He managed Brady’s gallery in Washington D.C. until the American Civil War began in 1861. While working at another studio of Brady’s, Gardner produced many of the Potomac Army Photographs.

He took more pictures of Abraham Lincoln than anyone else, and in a famous sequence of photographs, he recorded the hanging of the conspirators convicted of helping in the Lincoln assassination. He also photographed many other notable political figures of the day.

Alexander Gardner is best known for his civil war photos. Much of our image of the bloody reality of the Civil War is based on photographs taken or published by Alexander Gardner.

After the Civil War, Gardener spent the remainder of his life living in and photographing the American West. He was one of the first to photograph Northern Arizona and the Mohave Indian tribe.

Gardner was commissioned as photographer with the survey team investigating a proposed route to extend the Union Pacific Railway along the 35th parallel during 1867-1868.