Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed
Warriors had died.
The mourning for those dead was real and immediate.
Moving Robe Woman’s brother Deeds was among the dead.
The victory at Little Bighorn did not restore him.
On June 26, the Lakota and Cheyenne leaders made the decision that has puzzled some military historians: they chose to leave.
The camp broke up and moved south, away from the besieged soldiers on the bluff, away from the battlefield, away from the Custer battlefield to the north.
The reason was practical.
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