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

Crow women had significant social agency in domains that Denig wasn’t always well-positioned to observe.

Matrilineal clan membership meant that women controlled aspects of social identity and inheritance.

Clan mothers and other women held important social roles.

The domestic sphere that women managed was not a minor domain — in a mobile plains community where the processing of bison hides was the foundation of material culture, the work that women did was economically essential.

Woman Chief’s achievement was exceptional within Crow society.

It was not an exception to a rule of total female subjugation.