But the Apache people did not forget her.

And the record that they preserved, combined with the scholarship that took it seriously, means that she is being remembered now.

The Woman She Was

Behind the legend — behind the warrior, the shield, the person of power — was a woman who lived a specific life in a specific time and place.

She was born into a family in the Warm Springs Apache band.

She had a brother who became one of the most formidable military leaders the American West produced.