Powell, Peter J.

People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies (1981). — Comprehensive history of Northern Cheyenne warrior traditions.

Marquis, Thomas.

She Watched Custer’s Last Battle (1933). — Account including women’s perspectives from the Little Bighorn.

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, National Park Service: www.nps.gov/libi — Official site, including information on the Indian Memorial and Native American perspectives.

Northern Cheyenne Nation: www.cheyennenation.com — The tribal nation’s official website and cultural resources.

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian: americanindian.si.edu — Resources on Northern Cheyenne and Plains Indian cultures.

EXTENDED SECTION: THE WARRIOR TRADITION — WOMEN IN PLAINS WARFARE

To fully appreciate what Buffalo Calf Road Woman did at the Rosebud — and to understand why it was remembered rather than dismissed — it helps to understand the broader context of women and warfare in Plains cultures.

The image that most Americans carry of Plains Indigenous warfare is shaped almost entirely by a popular culture tradition that developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — dime novels, Wild West shows, Hollywood Westerns — none of which were interested in accuracy and all of which were deeply invested in a particular mythology of the frontier.