Moving Robe Woman’s trajectory after the battle — whether she followed Sitting Bull into Canada or remained in the United States — is not precisely documented in the historical record.

What is known is that she eventually lived on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which was established in the late 1870s and early 1880s as the U.S. government formalized its reservation system in the Dakotas.

The reservation era was a period of systematic destruction of Lakota culture and sovereignty.

The Ghost Dance movement of 1889-1890 — which promised spiritual renewal and the return of the world the Lakota had lost — spread through the reservations and was seen as a threat by U.S. government officials who feared it would lead to renewed resistance.

The killing of Sitting Bull at Standing Rock in December 1890 — shot by Indian Police during an attempt to arrest him in connection with the Ghost Dance — was a defining trauma for the Hunkpapa people.