Her name is not attached to a battlefield marker with specific coordinates.

What she has is something different: a place in the oral tradition of her people, preserved across generations despite the enormous pressures that eroded so much else of Lakota historical memory in the decades after 1876.

That tradition kept her story alive long enough for it to reach historians, for historians to record it, for it to be incorporated into serious scholarly treatments of the battle, and for it to gradually enter the broader public awareness of what Little Bighorn actually was.

She also has a growing presence in the popular history of the battle.