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

Native scholars, writers, and historians have been doing this work for generations.

But the broader public’s access to these stories has expanded significantly in recent decades, and Moving Robe Woman’s story has been a beneficiary of that expansion.

THE LANGUAGE AND WHAT IT CARRIES

Her Lakota name, Tȟašína Máni — most commonly translated as Moving Robe or Walking Blanket Woman — is itself a piece of history worth pausing over.

Lakota personal names in the nineteenth century were not fixed in the way that European names were.

Names could be given, changed, earned, or taken on in recognition of significant events or qualities.