When the battle happened and the 7th Cavalry was decisively defeated, many Lakota understood it as the fulfillment of what Sitting Bull had seen.

The warning about taking belongings was not universally followed.

Some Lakota and Cheyenne did take weapons, horses, and equipment from the dead — practical necessities in a world where those things were hard to come by.

Some later accounts suggest that the subsequent hardships of the winter campaign and the final destruction of the free-ranging Lakota bands were understood, at least by some, as the consequence of that failure to heed Sitting Bull’s warning.

Moving Robe Woman’s story sits within this spiritual framework.