Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
She saw the Sun Dance suppressed.
She saw the seasonal movements of her people — following the herds, following the seasons, living in the way her family had lived for generations — become impossible.
This loss — the loss of the world she had known, the world she had fought to defend at the Greasy Grass — is the larger context of her story.
The battle she rode into in 1876 was a moment of extraordinary triumph.
The decades that followed were a sustained catastrophe.
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