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This art print is made from an historical photo of Samual Lone Bear taken by the renown photographer Gertrude Käsebier.

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Samuel Lone Bear (Mato Waryilae) was traveling with William F. Cody's Wild West Show when this photo was taken.

He later became a Sioux Indian Peyote missionary in 1914, an Episcopalian, and also a practicing medicine man. His healing skills are said to have been legendary, and people came to him from several states away for healing ceremonies.

Samual Lone Bear held Peyote rituals at Fallon and Pyramid Lake, Nevada during several months in the summer of 1929. During this time he used the names Leo Old Coyote and Leo O'Kio in Nevada because he was trying to avoid being arrested under a federal warrant for violation of the Mann Act.

The United States White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 prohibited so-called white slavery. It also banned the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes.” Its primary stated intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking. The act is better known as the Mann Act, after James Robert Mann, an American lawmaker.

Sam Lone Bear was eventually arrested in 1932, tried, and sentenced to three years in the federal prison at McNeil Island, Washington, but was paroled in two years. On his way home he stopped at Fallon, Nevada, and courted Mamie Charley, the sister of a Shoshone he had converted in 1929. Sam and Mamie were married in South Dakota and lived on Sam's allotment on Lone Bear Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, until he died on February 5, 1937.

Gertrude Kasebier (1852 - 1934), was born Gertrude Stanton on May 18, 1852, in Fort Des Moines, Iowa. The Stanton family first moved to Colorado during the gold rush, getting rich from a lumber mill, and later moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1864 where Gertrude eventually married Eduard Kasebier on her twenty-second birthday.

The marriage turned out to be an unhappy one, and they spent most of their lives apart. Gertrude Käsebier attended art school at the Pratt Institute from 1889 to 1893 during their marriage and made many trips to Europe. Originally, Gertrude wanted to be a portrait painter, but in 1894 she won two photography contests and decided to spend a year in Europe to broaden her study of photography and painting.

When her husband fell ill and she was informed he had a year to live, she returned to the states to care for him. The promised year turned into twelve before he died. She is reported as saying upon his death that "If my husband went to Heaven, then I want to spend eternity in Hell, so there's no chance of bumping into him." She went on to become one of the most famous women photographers of her time and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in 1979. Gertrude Stanton Kasebier was most famous for her photographs representing motherhood. She was also noted for her printing process and ability to produce images with a painterly quality.

Gertrude Kasebier's native american photographs represent simple, yet artistic, portraits of Indians traveling with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and reservations of the Dakota Sioux.

Her fond memories of playing with Indian children during her youth led her to write to William F. Cody requesting to photograph Indians performing in his show at Madison Square Garden in 1898. Nine Indians were selected to be photographed. Her studio had no elaborate backdrops. She removed Indian regalia from her subjects to depict the Indians as "raw" individuals, with strong personalities and experiences blurred between traditional life and contemporary times.

Gertrude Kasebier developed long relationships with several of the Wild West Show's Indians, corresponding with a few, like Samuel Lone Bear, from 1898 to 1912.