Army on June 25, 1876.

From an American military perspective, she was on the wrong side.

The fact that her people were defending treaty rights, that her brother had been killed in an unprovoked attack on her community, that she was acting from grief and love rather than aggression — these facts complicate the simple moral categories that military commemoration tends to enforce.

Her story has no comfortable place in the traditional Little Bighorn mythology.

That is precisely why it matters.