Akkeekaahuush is described as someone who, together with her husband Knife, was an “infamous war leader” — suggesting a partnership between spouses in military activity rather than solo female action.

She was captured by the Piegans in battle and later escaped, which itself suggests direct combat experience.

Biliíche Héeleelash is described as having fought in the “finest female attire” — a detail that is visually striking and that contrasts with Woman Chief’s warrior equipment, suggesting that there was more than one way to be a woman who participated in Crow military life.

Denig himself noted that Woman Chief’s success had inspired imitation elsewhere — specifically, that “an Assiniboine woman” had attempted to follow a similar path but had been killed in her first military engagement.