She was, during the years between Sand Creek and the Washita, one of the most visible and most potent symbols of what had happened at Sand Creek.

Her survival with nine bullet wounds was known throughout the Cheyenne community.

The visible evidence of her injuries, in the years after Sand Creek, was a daily reminder of what the American military had done to a camp that was supposed to be under military protection.

She died at the Washita — having survived what was unsurvivable once, she was killed in the second attack that Black Kettle’s peace strategy had not been able to prevent.

Her story is inseparable from his.