The Gros Ventre who killed her almost certainly did not know exactly who she was.

They knew she was traveling with a small Crow party.

They may or may not have known she was a famous Crow war chief.

Whether they killed her because of who she was or simply because she was a recognizable enemy from a nation they had no reason to trust in 1854 is not recorded.

What is recorded is that the mission ended in her death.

And that Denig, who heard about it, found it a fitting subject for the biographical account he was already writing about her — an end that was both consistent with how she had lived and a reminder of how dangerous the world was in which she had made her life.