Scenes in the Indian Country: Lakota Indian Running Water with Members of the US Indian Peace Commission at the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty Signing

by Alexander Gardner, Photographer

$9,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A historically important photograph of a Lakota Indian with two members of the Indian Peace Commission at the pivotal Fort Laramie Treaty signing, taken by the renowned Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner as part of his Scenes in the Indian Country series. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty is one of the most notorious broken treaties by the US Government. In 1868, Gardner was commissioned by the US Government to photograph the peace talks between the federally-appointed

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