Her biography, perhaps the first record of female Native American life, was written by Frank B. Linderman, who interviewed her using an interpreter and sign language.

They kicked balls stuffed with antelope hair and slid down snowy hillsides on sleds made of buffalo ribs.

When she was fourteen, Pretty Shield and a group of her friends were treed by a grizzly bear and her cubs.

Like other Crow women, Pretty Shield cut her hair short and slashed her arms, legs, and face to show her suffering, then wandered without food or water until her grief became less intense.

As was customary, she did not charge a fee but was paid in gifts, including tobacco, elks' teeth, buffalo robes, and food.

[3] Pretty Shield's Crow clan, the Sore Lips, had inhabited southeastern Montana for generations.

[6] Talking to Linderman, Pretty Shield expressed a sadness over the disappearing Crow culture.

Even the Lakota, bad as their hearts were for us, would not do such a thing as this; nor the Cheyenne, nor the Arapahoe, nor the Pecunnie; and yet the white man did this, even when he did not want the meat.