Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed

She was not the only woman who participated in the battle of the Little Bighorn.

The accounts of warriors who fought that day mention other women who rode out, who encouraged the fighters, who picked up weapons when the fighting came close to the camp.

But Moving Robe Woman is the most documented, the one whose name and account survived most clearly in the historical record.

RENO’S ATTACK AND THE DEFENSE OF THE CAMP

While Custer was moving north with his five companies, Major Reno’s battalion was approaching the southern end of the camp — the Hunkpapa circle — at a gallop.

Reno had approximately 175 men.