Women ran the households — the tipis, the food preparation, the care of children and elders, the management of the camp’s internal life.

Men handled the hunting and the defense of the camp, though the boundaries between these roles were more fluid than later romanticizations suggested.

Older men and women were repositories of knowledge and authority.

Children ran through the camp in the summer heat.

Dogs barked.

Horses grazed on the valley grass.

The days before the battle were not days of tension.

The people in the camp did not know that the U.S.