[2] Big Robber had a brother named Dancing White Horse, who was killed by the Lakota in 1844.
United States Commissioners appointed Big Robber as head chief of the entire nation.
[4] He negotiated with Chief Red Fish of the Lakota, who was also a participant in the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty, to establish regional boundaries.
[5] An alternate legend surrounding the death of Big Robber concerns the naming of Crowheart Butte in Wyoming.
The butte was allegedly named after an 1866 duel between Big Robber and Chief Washakie of the Eastern Shoshones.