The Native Woman Who Became A Chief — The Forgotten Story Of Woman Chief, The Warrior Who Led The Crow

She was not an adversary to American expansion in the way that Geronimo or Sitting Bull was.

She was not a romantic figure in the tradition of Pocahontas.

She was not a victim of American policy in the way that made some Native American stories appealing to reform-minded writers.

She was simply a Crow leader whose story did not intersect with American national mythology in any convenient way.

This absence was compounded by the specific way that gender operated in popular western history.

Women in western mythology were cast in specific roles — the frontier wife, the saloon woman, the captive, the schoolteacher.