Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
People moved between these worlds.
Families had members on both sides of the line.
Young men from the agencies traveled to join the great camp on the Greasy Grass.
Moving Robe Woman’s band — Sitting Bull’s Hunkpapa — were firmly in the non-accommodation camp.
They had maintained their freedom in the unceded territory, had refused to accept the reduction of Lakota territory that the government had been pressing for, and had gathered in unprecedented numbers in the summer of 1876 to assert that they would continue to live as they chose.
The political context of this refusal — the violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty, the seizure of the Black Hills, the January 1876 ultimatum — gave the gathering at the Greasy Grass its specific moral character.
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