The broader scholarly project of recentering Lakota and Cheyenne perspectives on Little Bighorn — associated with researchers like Jerome Greene and with the tribe’s own cultural preservation efforts — brought her into sharper focus.

The challenge in all of this scholarship is the same challenge that confronts anyone working with the historical record of the Plains Wars: the surviving documentation is dominated by American military sources and by accounts recorded by non-Indigenous researchers, often through interpreters, years or decades after the events described.

The voices of the Lakota and Cheyenne participants are present but filtered.

Moving Robe Woman’s own testimony — wherever it was recorded — represents the purest access to her account.