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

It demonstrates what the Crow social system could recognize and accommodate when confronted with exceptional ability.

It demonstrates what was possible for a woman in the specific context of the northern plains in the early and middle nineteenth century.

And it demonstrates, simply, that remarkable people exist in every society in every era — that the historical record’s failure to preserve their stories reflects the limitations of the record, not the limitations of the people it overlooked.

She was remarkable.