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

Her grief was real.

Her decision to ride into the battle was real.

Her story matters because it is true — because it actually happened, to a real woman, on a real day in June 1876, on the banks of a river that the Lakota called the Greasy Grass.

And it matters because for a century, the dominant telling of that day made no room for her.

Making room for her now is not a distortion of history.