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

This is a different category from Woman Chief’s formal warrior status, but it is not without precedent, and it was understood and respected by the Lakota warriors around her.

The broader history of women’s participation in Plains warfare is a subject that deserves more attention than it has received in the popular history of the American West.

Moving Robe Woman’s story is one entry point into that broader history.

THE FORT LARAMIE TREATY AND ITS VIOLATION

The Battle of Little Bighorn was not an event that appeared from nowhere.

It was the product of a specific political failure — the failure of the United States government to honor the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.