Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
In that vision, Sitting Bull had seen soldiers falling from the sky like grasshoppers, falling upside down into the Lakota camp.
The holy man interpreted this as a promise: if the people stayed together and remained spiritually prepared, they would triumph over the soldiers who were coming.
The camp that assembled on the Greasy Grass — estimates of its size range from ten thousand to fifteen thousand people, with perhaps three thousand to four thousand warriors — was a response to that vision, and to the escalating military pressure the U.S. government had been applying to force the Lakota onto reservations.
The summer of 1876 was also a moment of specific political crisis.
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