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 could count coup.

Women could and did participate in the post-battle treatment of fallen enemies.

Moving Robe Woman’s account of her actions after the battle — and the accounts of others describing what women did — need to be understood within this cultural framework, not judged by external standards that the participants did not hold.

CUSTER’S MYTHOLOGY AND WHAT IT ERASED

George Armstrong Custer died at the Little Bighorn.

He was thirty-six years old.