The specific military achievement of Victorio’s band during this period was the product of multiple factors: exceptional knowledge of the terrain, outstanding horsemanship and riding endurance, a system of scouts and lookouts that gave the band advance warning of military movements, and the specific military skills of the warriors who rode with Victorio.

Lozen was among those warriors.

The oral accounts place her in multiple specific engagements during this period — at river crossings, in canyon battles, in the raids on military supply lines and frontier settlements that kept the band supplied and mobile.

She was described as fighting alongside men, making the same risks, covering the same ground, performing the same functions.

Her specific role as the person who located enemy positions through her ceremonial gift gave her a function that no one else in the band could replicate.

This was not merely a ceremonial or symbolic role.