That is not a story about gender.

Or rather, it is a story about gender in the most interesting way possible: it is a story about what gender boundaries in a specific society actually were and weren’t, about where they were enforced and where they gave way to the reality of individual capability.

The Songs That Were Sung

One of the details in Denig’s account is the mention that the Crow had sung songs about Woman Chief’s victories.

This is not a minor detail.