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

Woman Chief.

Third-highest chief in a band of 160 lodges.

Subject of songs that her people sang.

Person of extraordinary achievement in one of the most demanding environments in the history of the American continent.

Remember her name.

The world in which she lived was one of the most demanding that any human community has ever navigated: the northern plains in the first half of the nineteenth century, with neighbors pressing on every border, enemies raiding horses and camps, American expansion accelerating, disease reducing populations with devastating speed, and the entire material basis of life dependent on the successful management of enormous distances, fierce weather, and the complex social relationships that kept communities viable.

In that world, she rose from captured child to recognized chief through nothing but the consistent, verified, publicly acknowledged demonstration of extraordinary capability over decades of active life.