No correspondent followed the women as they fled with children, then rallied to defend their camp.

No journalist recorded the grief of the families who had lost people in Reno’s initial charge, or the horror that rippled through the camp when the bodies of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors were identified.

Moving Robe Woman’s name did not appear in American newspapers in 1876.

The Lakota accounts that did eventually reach American audiences came mostly through interpreters, and mostly years or decades later, in circumstances shaped by defeat, reservation confinement, and the constant pressure of assimilation.

Even then, those accounts were often filtered through anthropologists, journalists, or military historians who had their own frameworks for understanding what had happened.