The treatment of wounded or dead enemies in Lakota battle practice sometimes involved acts that the Victorian American sensibility found deeply disturbing — but which had specific cultural meaning within Lakota warrior traditions.

Third: The specific attribution of Dorman’s death or post-death treatment to Moving Robe Woman specifically comes from accounts that were recorded years after the battle, sometimes through interpreters, and that in some cases may reflect the narrative needs of the person recording them rather than the testimony of the person speaking.

Moving Robe Woman’s own recorded statements do not appear to include a direct first-person claim of killing Dorman.

The attribution in the historical literature needs to be treated as a claim made by others, not as a confirmed first-person account.