The question of her specific motivations at various points in her life is similarly unanswerable.

Why did she choose the warrior path when she could have followed the conventional female path?

Denig attributes it to her inclinations from childhood, which is plausible but doesn’t explain the choice in terms she herself might have recognized.

Why did she undertake the peace mission to the Gros Ventre in 1854?

Denig doesn’t speculate, and speculation from outside her perspective is exactly the kind of thing that produces distortion rather than understanding.

The question of what her relationships with her wives were like, in their full human complexity, is entirely closed by the absence of any account from the perspective of the women in her household.