Bíawacheeitchish.

In the Crow language, the name means Female Chief.

Or Woman Chief.

The translation is the same: a title that embedded her achievement in her identity, that made who she was inseparable from what she had become.

The Crow did not give her that name as a consolation prize or as a polite acknowledgment.

The Crow gave her that name because she had earned it through a specific process — through the accumulation of war honors, through the building of a following, through the demonstration of the qualities that Crow society recognized as constitutive of chiefly authority.

She was third in command of 160 lodges.