The construction of the Indian Memorial in 2003 went further.

The broader transformation of how American culture talks about the Plains Wars — and about the conquest of Indigenous North America generally — is still underway.

It is incomplete, contested, and uneven.

But the direction of change is toward inclusion of Indigenous voices, toward acknowledgment of the political and moral context of the conflicts, and toward recognition that the stories told by the people who won Little Bighorn are as valid and as historically significant as the stories told by the people who lost it.

Moving Robe Woman’s story belongs in this transformation.