He saw soldiers — troops on horseback — falling from the sky into the Lakota camp.

They were upside down, their hats falling off, suggesting defeat and death.

The vision came with a message: the soldiers were gifts from Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka.

They were coming, and if the Lakota remained faithful and spiritually prepared, the soldiers would fall.

The vision was reported throughout the camp and was understood as a prophecy.

It contributed to the confidence that animated the Lakota and Cheyenne defense on June 25 — the sense that what was happening was not merely military but spiritually significant, a fulfillment of a sacred promise.

Moving Robe Woman was part of a community for whom Sitting Bull’s vision was not a metaphor or a story.