One Who Walks with the Stars explained

One Who Walks With the Stars (also translated as Walks with Stars Woman or Woman-Who-Walks-with-the-Stars) was an Oglala Lakota woman^[1] who fought against General Custer's men at Big Horn.^[2]

She was the wife of Crow Dog, a Brulé Lakota warrior.

Battle of the Little Big Horn

She killed two soldiers by slashing and clubbing them in the water of the river bank during the Battle of Little Big Horn.^[3] Lawson (2007) writes that "Although Crow Dog did not kill anyone during the battle, his wife, One-Who-Walks-with-the-Stars, killed two soldiers who were attempting to swim across the river."^{[4] [5]}

According to survivors of Little Big Horn,^{[3] [6]} one of these killings took place while One Who Walks With the Stars was rounding up stray cavalry horses in woodland near the Brulé camp. Seeing one of Custer's men crawling through the brush in an attempt to reach the river, she took a piece of driftwood and clubbed him to death.^[7]

See also

• Buffalo Calf Road Woman
• Minnie Hollow Wood
• Moving Robe Woman
• Pretty Nose

Notes and References

1. Book: Hardorff . Richard G. . Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight: New Sources of Indian-military History . 1997 . . 9780803272934 . 46.
2. Book: Maine . Floyd Shuster . Lone Eagle, the White Sioux . 1956 . University of New Mexico Press (Original: University of Wisconsin Press) . Albuquerque (Madison) . 128–129 . 28 September 2020.
3. Book: Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn: A Biographical Dictionary of Sioux, Cheyenne and United States Military Personnel . 138, 168, 235 . Wagner . Frederic C. III . 2nd . United States . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers . 9781476624396 . December 23, 2015 . E-book . English . September 26, 2020 . September 26, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200926193717/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Participants_in_the_Battle_of_the_Little/mGpECwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22One+Who+Walks+with+the+Stars%22&pg=PA168 . live .
4. Book: Lawson . Michael L. . Landmark Events in Native American History: Little Big Horn, Winning the Battle, Losing the War . 2007 . . New York . 978-0-7910-9347-4 . 24–25 . 28 September 2020.
5. Web site: Native Americans & Little Big Horn~Sioux Treaty of 1868 - Stories . 28 September 2020.
6. Book: Miller. David Humphreys. Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story. 1992. New York. Meridian Books. 0452010950. 156–158 .
7. Web site: LBH Warriors . Friendslittlebighorn.com . April 26, 2014 . September 26, 2020 . 33 . December 22, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181222180016/http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/LBH%20Warriors.pdf . live .