She appears in some of the earliest serious attempts to document the Lakota perspective on Little Bighorn.

Researchers like Dr.

Charles Eastman — himself a Santee Dakota and one of the first Native Americans to receive a Western medical degree — worked to document Indigenous accounts of the battle in the early twentieth century.

Walter Camp, a railway executive who devoted much of his personal time to interviewing Little Bighorn survivors, also collected accounts from Lakota witnesses that touched on women’s participation in the battle.

Later historians like Mari Sandoz, whose 1942 biography of Crazy Horse drew heavily on Lakota oral accounts, and John Gray, whose careful military history of the battle analyzed the sequence of events in detail, both noted Moving Robe Woman’s role.