The study of Lakota and Cheyenne oral traditions about the battle has benefited from the work of Indigenous scholars who bring specific cultural knowledge to the interpretation of accounts that outside researchers have sometimes misread.

The specific cultural meaning of particular actions — what it meant to count coup, what the appropriate response to a relative’s death was, how the decision to ride into the battle would have been understood by those who witnessed it — is better understood when filtered through Indigenous cultural knowledge rather than interpreted purely through Western frameworks.

Moving Robe Woman’s story is part of this ongoing research.

Her account, her life, her family connections, her actions at the battle and afterward — these are subjects of active historical inquiry, and future research is likely to add to what is currently known.