Among them, by accounts that vary in their details, was Deeds — Moving Robe Woman’s brother.

Deeds was young.

How young is not entirely clear from the historical record; some accounts suggest he was a teenager, perhaps fourteen or fifteen, young enough to be considered a boy rather than a warrior.

He was killed in this early contact — one of the first Lakota deaths of the day.

The news traveled quickly through the camp.

In the organized social world of the Lakota village, information moved fast.

Women and men knew immediately when a kinsman had fallen.