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 world they had defended at the Greasy Grass was gone within a decade.
The people who had gathered there in unprecedented strength were dispersed, confined, and in many cases dead within a few years of the battle.
The memory of Little Bighorn within Lakota culture is therefore not simply celebratory.
It is the memory of a moment when the world was still possible — when the Lakota could gather in thousands, when the warriors could fight and win, when the Sun Dance could be held and the vision received and acted upon — and the knowledge of what came after.
Moving Robe Woman carried both dimensions of this memory.
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