[2][3] Researchers at the National Museum of the American Indian identified her was being born in 1895, Hunkpapa Lakota, married to Harry Red Tomahawk, living on the Standing Rock Reservation, and dying in 1966.

[1] Her work is unusual in that it was narrative, rather than abstract as was much of the art produced by Native American women during those years.

Her pictures show rituals from the Plains Indian tribes; at least one is suspected to show a Cheyenne ritual, probably a War Dance, as the men illustrated wear headdresses typical of that tribe.

This work is signed "Miss Annie Little Warrior" in a hand likely not her own; the prominence of the signature indicates that her identity as an artist carried considerable importance for her.

[3] Five of her drawings are in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.