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 brother’s name was Deeds.
She learned he had been killed, and she picked up a weapon and rode into the battle.
That is not scenery.
That is a person.
Her story does not replace the story of the soldiers who died on the ridge above the Little Bighorn River.
It does not erase the tragedy of those deaths or make them meaningless.
It adds to the record — it insists that the record include her, that the battle be understood as something that happened to her people as well as to the 7th Cavalry, that the Lakota victory be understood as the product of actual human decisions made by actual human beings who had things they were willing to fight and die for.
Tȟašína Máni.
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