Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
He had been killed the day before, in the first terrible minutes of Reno’s charge, when the soldiers arrived from an unexpected direction and the village scrambled to defend itself.
He was young — some accounts suggest he may have been a teenager — and his death set in motion the events that would bring his sister into the fight.
What she felt in the days after the battle is not recorded.
Whether she grieved privately, or whether the enormity of the Lakota victory gave her grief some frame of meaning, is not something the historical record tells us.
Whether she searched for her brother’s body, or performed whatever mourning rituals her tradition prescribed, is not documented.
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