She was born to one nation and raised by another.

She trained in skills that her adoptive society assigned to one gender, not the other.

She demonstrated those skills in a crisis that could have ended badly, and came out of it with her first warrior recognition.

She built on that recognition over decades of consistent high-level performance.

She accumulated followers, wives, horses, and honors in the proportions that the Crow system recognized as chiefly.

And she was eventually acknowledged as the third-highest chief in a band of 160 lodges.