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

What will not change is the essential fact at the center of the story: she was there.

She heard that her brother was dead.

She rode into the battle.

The documentation of that fact — imperfect, filtered through translation and the conditions of historical recording — is enough to establish her as a historical figure whose story belongs in any serious account of the Battle of Little Bighorn.

FINAL REFLECTION: THE LAKOTA SIDE OF HISTORY

The Battle of Little Bighorn was one of the most significant events in the history of the American West.

It was fought between two peoples with deeply incompatible visions of what the northern Great Plains would become.