HER LATER LIFE

Moving Robe Woman survived the Battle of Little Bighorn, survived the military campaigns that followed, and eventually lived on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which encompasses parts of present-day North and South Dakota.

Her later life was shaped by the same pressures that shaped the lives of all Lakota people in the reservation era: the loss of land, the suppression of traditional cultural practices, the forced assimilation policies that the U.S. government imposed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Ghost Dance movement of 1890 — a pan-Indian spiritual revival that promised the return of the buffalo and the ancestors — spread through the Standing Rock reservation and contributed directly to the events that led to the killing of Sitting Bull in December 1890 and the massacre at Wounded Knee that followed weeks later.