Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed

The Northern Cheyenne were hit particularly hard.

Dull Knife’s village was attacked in November 1876 in what became known as the Dull Knife Fight or the Battle of the Red Fork.

The village was destroyed, the horses killed, the food and belongings burned.

In the dead of a Montana winter, with nowhere to go and nothing left, many Northern Cheyenne had no choice but to surrender.

The Lakota bands faced similar pressure.

One by one, the bands that had been at Little Bighorn — that had celebrated the victory there just months before — were forced to choose between surrender and continuation of a struggle that was becoming increasingly impossible to sustain.