What did it mean to be a woman in a Lakota camp that was under attack?

What drove her to pick up a weapon and ride out, and what did she do once she was in the fighting?

These questions have different answers, and those answers reveal different things about the battle and what it meant.

Her account does not replace the military record.

It adds to it — and in adding to it, it shifts the interpretive frame in ways that serious historians have increasingly recognized.

THE ROLE OF SITTING BULL’S VISION