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

She had been in the battle.

She had ridden among the warriors.

She had survived the victory and survived everything that followed.

Her account, when she gave it, was not the account of a woman describing a triumphant moment.

It was the account of a woman who had lived through the full arc of that moment — the victory, the pursuit, the reservation, the suppression, the Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull’s death, Wounded Knee.

Within Lakota culture today, Little Bighorn remains a significant marker — the moment when the people proved what they were capable of, when the vision was fulfilled, when the soldiers fell as Sitting Bull had seen them falling in his dream.