The Native Woman Who Became A Chief — The Forgotten Story Of Woman Chief, The Warrior Who Led The Crow
What was the full measure of what Bíawacheeitchish accomplished?
She was born to one people and became a leader of another.
She trained in skills that her adoptive society assigned to men and demonstrated those skills at a level that most men in that society never approached.
She built a war record that Denig — a careful observer of twelve years — called unprecedented for a woman and exceptional by any standard.
She accumulated the horses and the followers and the council seat that defined chiefly status in Crow society.