Moving Robe Woman

Moving Robe Woman (Sioux name Tȟašína Máni), also known as Mary Crawler, Her Eagle Robe, She Walks With Her Shawl, Walking Blanket Woman, Moves Robe Woman, Walks With Her Robe and Tashenamani was a Hunkpapa Sioux woman who fought against General George Custer during the Battle of Little Big Horn to avenge her brother, One Hawk, who had been killed.

Early life Moving Robe Woman was born near the area now called Grand River, South Dakota. and was the Hunkpapa band chief, However, several other warriors claimed to have killed Custer, and it is uncertain that Moving Robe Woman actually killed him. There are no published post-mortem accounts that describe Custer as having stab wounds, and officers who found his body described him as having died of gunshot wounds.

She also avenged her brother's death by killing two of Custer's men, one with a knife and the other with a revolver. The latter was the army interpreter Isaiah Dorman.

Later years After the battle of the Little Bighorn, she moved with her people to Canada, where she remained until 1881. She then moved to the Kenel area of Standing Rock. The Standing Rock Family Information Survey notes that in 1923 at age 70, Moving Robe Woman was living alone in a one room log house with a connected barn on the Grand River west of Bullhead, South Dakota. The survey also noted that she owned 18 horses and 23 cattle.

The American artist Thom Ross has created a 200-piece installation of the battle, including a painting of Moving Robe Woman.