The National Park Service has worked, in recent decades, to integrate Native American perspectives into the interpretation of the battlefield.

Cheyenne and Lakota descendants serve as park rangers and cultural interpreters.

The oral traditions of the participating nations are now part of the official interpretive program.

Buffalo Calf Road Woman is part of this evolving story.

Her name is known at the battlefield.

Her story is told there.

She is, slowly, taking her place in the public historical record of an event she was present for — not as a footnote, but as one of the people whose courage and choices shaped what happened.

The work is not complete.

The process of fully integrating Indigenous perspectives into American historical memory is generational — it will not happen in a single monument dedication or a single revised museum label.

But it is happening.