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.
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