Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
It was also temporary.
The U.S. government’s response to the defeat was exactly what the Lakota and Cheyenne might have predicted: escalation.
More troops were sent.
The campaign to force the remaining free Lakota onto reservations intensified dramatically.
The Army pursued the bands through the fall and winter of 1876-77, attacking camps, destroying food supplies, capturing horses, and steadily reducing the space in which the free Lakota could exist.
Sitting Bull led his band into Canada, where they remained for several years before eventually returning and surrendering.
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