Her wealth in horses was also a marker of her military success, because most of those horses had been acquired through raids.

Each horse represented a successful raid, a calculation made and executed, a risk taken and survived.

The fact that she participated in horse-raiding operations — that she led raids and brought horses back — is documented in the pattern of her accumulated wealth.

The specific raids are not all recoverable, but the result of them is: she was a wealthy woman by Crow standards, and that wealth had been earned through the activities that produced wealth in Crow society.

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