29 min
Cheyenne and Lakota Women and the Battle of the Little Bighorn MontanaHistoricalSociety
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Dr. Leila Monaghan, professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, provides insight into the important, but little known, material, military, and spiritual assistance that women provided before, during, and after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Using the testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota women—Antelope, Pretty White Buffalo, Moving Robe, Julia Face, and others—Monaghan describes the battle as women experienced it: ensuring their family’s safety, rallying their warriors with “strongheart songs,” capturing runaway horses, nursing the wounded, landing death blows to injured enemy soldiers, engaging in direct combat, and performing rites for the dead. (9/28/2019)
Dr. Leila Monaghan, professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, provides insight into the important, but little known, material, military, and spiritual assistance that women provided before, during, and after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Using the testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota women—Antelope, Pretty White Buffalo, Moving Robe, Julia Face, and others—Monaghan describes the battle as women experienced it: ensuring their family’s safety, rallying their warriors with “strongheart songs,” capturing runaway horses, nursing the wounded, landing death blows to injured enemy soldiers, engaging in direct combat, and performing rites for the dead. (9/28/2019)
29 min