Moving Robe Woman’s account is about a brother, a family, a community under attack.

Both kinds of account are necessary for understanding what happened at the Little Bighorn.

Neither is complete without the other.

THE DORMAN QUESTION: WHAT CAREFUL HISTORY REQUIRES

Isaiah Dorman deserves more than a footnote in the story of Little Bighorn.

He was a Black man on the frontier, a man whose presence in the Army’s employ as a scout and interpreter reflected the complex position of African Americans in the post-Civil War West.

He had lived among the Lakota for a time and was known to some of them.