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 history was not abstract to them.

Some of the Cheyenne warriors at Little Bighorn had survived the Washita or had family members who had died there.

For Moving Robe Woman and the other Hunkpapa Lakota in the camp, the Seventh Cavalry’s record — its previous actions against Plains peoples — was part of the context in which the attack on June 25 was understood.

The soldiers who came out of the hills that morning were not strangers.

They were representatives of a military institution with a documented history of attacking Indigenous camps.