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

But the language survived, and with it the capacity to preserve names like hers in their original form rather than only in English approximation.

The Lakota Language Consortium and other organizations have worked for decades to support Lakota language education and preservation.

That work means that when her name is written in Lakota, it is written in a living language, not a dead one — in a language that her descendants still speak, still teach, and still use to tell the stories of their people.

HER STORY AND THE ONGOING WORK OF HISTORY