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

THE CAMP AFTER THE BATTLE

When the last soldiers on Custer’s battlefield fell, the fighting was not over — Reno’s men were still pinned on their bluff to the south — but the most significant phase of the battle had ended.

The camp that evening was a place of mixed emotion that defies simple characterization.

There was celebration.

A victory of extraordinary magnitude had been won.

The soldiers who had come to destroy the camp had been destroyed instead.

The vision Sitting Bull had received at the Sun Dance had been fulfilled.