June 25th 1876, two Indigenous warrior women, Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Cheyenne) and Pretty Nose (Arapaho) participated in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Buffalo Calf Road Woman (left) killed George Custer, clubbing him on the head, while on horseback—ending his reign of terror. 
George Armstrong Custer’s Crow and Arikara scouts repeatedly warned him not to take the 7th Cavalry down into the Little Bighorn Valley. When Custer arrogantly refused to do so, they began to sing their death songs. Custer’s entire command was wiped out that day. June 25th, 1876.
When Mark Soldier Wolf returned from the Korean War in 1952, his 101 year old grandmother, Pretty Nose, hero of Little Bighorn was waiting. She was adorned in buckskin and her cuffs signified her rank as a war chief. As he approached her, he could hear her singing her war song.
Native women are grandmothers, mothers, sisters, cousins, daughters and aunties. They are also the providers and protectors of the Indigenous nations they so wonderfully represent. They are the sacred water of life—from which we all flow.
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