Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
WOMEN IN THE BATTLE AND THE CAMP
Moving Robe Woman was not an anomaly.
The historical accounts of the Battle of Little Bighorn contain multiple references to women’s participation — not as combatants in the formal sense, but as active participants in the defense and in the immediate aftermath.
Lakota warrior culture did not have a formal category of “female warrior” equivalent to what European military tradition would recognize.
But Lakota women were not simply passive bystanders during times of military crisis.
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