Crow is still spoken as a living language by a significant portion of the community, though like most Indigenous languages, it faces the pressures of English dominance in education and media.

The historical memory that the Crow Nation maintains includes the figures who are recognized in the community’s own historical tradition — including Bíawacheeitchish.

Her inclusion in the Little Big Horn College’s timeline of Apsáalooke chiefs and leaders is one expression of this maintained memory.

The contemporary Crow Nation is the continuation of the community that Woman Chief led — changed enormously by the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by the reservation era, by the disruptions of boarding schools and federal policies, but fundamentally continuous in identity, language, and cultural tradition.

Woman Chief’s story is Crow history.