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

Her voice — preserved in translated testimony, carried in Lakota oral tradition, documented in the accounts of warriors who saw her ride into the battle — is one of the voices that the transformation is making space for.

CONCLUSION: THE VOICE THAT WAS ALWAYS THERE

Moving Robe Woman rode into the Battle of Little Bighorn after her brother was killed.

This is the fact at the center of her story.

It is a fact supported by multiple accounts, including her own testimony.

It is a fact that situates her not as a peripheral figure at a battle about someone else but as a participant — a person who was there, who acted, who survived, and who told what she experienced.

For 150 years, the story of Little Bighorn in American culture was primarily the story of George Armstrong Custer.