The Native Woman Who Became A Chief — The Forgotten Story Of Woman Chief, The Warrior Who Led The Crow
She was Native American.
The systematic marginalization of Native American history in American education and popular culture affected her story exactly as it affected the stories of thousands of other significant Native figures.
The history of Indigenous peoples was treated as background — as the obstacle to American expansion rather than as the subject of its own account.
Figures like Woman Chief, who were significant within their own nations and their own historical contexts, were invisible in a history that wasn’t looking for them.
She died young, by accident, on a peace mission.
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