And now she proposed to use the peace created by the Fort Laramie Treaty to build a connection to them.

The specific motivation behind this decision is not preserved in the historical record.

We don’t know whether it was a desire to know her birth family, a political calculation about the benefits of peace, a personal sense of the absurdity of fighting people she was connected to by birth, or some combination of all of these.

What we know is that she traveled toward Gros Ventre territory with a small party.

And that it killed her.