She was the daughter of a chief, Stands-in-the-Timber, who died in 1849, and the niece of Bad Faced Bull.
[3] She fought the Shoshone again in 1869, and during battle she stabbed and killed an enemy, saving a member of her own people.
During this period, Cheyenne women often participated in battle, dressed and armed the same as the male warriors were.
[6] She died in August of 1915 at the Tongue River Reservation in Montana, aged eighty-nine.
[4] She is one of the women in the Heritage Floor of the famous feminist installation art work, The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago.