The accounts of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors who were present — collected over the decades following 1876 by journalists, historians, and anthropologists — provide corroborating and contextualizing information.

The political history of the events leading to Little Bighorn draws on primary documents including the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, U.S. government records of the 1876 campaign, and the extensive scholarly literature on the Plains Wars.

Archaeological evidence from the battlefield — particularly the systematic work following the 1983 grass fire — provides physical confirmation and complication of the oral and documentary accounts.

Moving Robe Woman’s connection to specific events, including events involving Isaiah Dorman, is presented here with the level of certainty the evidence supports.