Moving Robe Woman (Tȟašína Máni) — The Hunkpapa Lakota Woman Who Rode Into The Battle Of Little Bighorn After Learning Her Brother Had Been Killed

Moving Robe Woman, who had known Sitting Bull her entire life and had fought in the greatest victory his leadership helped produce, lived through that loss as well.

Two weeks after Sitting Bull’s death came Wounded Knee — the massacre of Big Foot’s band of Miniconjou Lakota by the Seventh Cavalry, the regiment that had been destroyed at Little Bighorn fourteen years earlier.

Two hundred to three hundred Lakota, including women and children, were killed.

It was the end of armed Lakota resistance.

Moving Robe Woman lived through all of this: the battle, the victory, the pursuit, the reservation, the Ghost Dance crisis, the killing of Sitting Bull, Wounded Knee.

The sweep of her life encompassed both the greatest military victory of the Plains nations and the systematic destruction of the world that victory had briefly preserved.