10 Facts About Pretty Shield

Pretty Shield was a medicine woman of the Crow Nation.

Pretty Shield's name was given to her by her grandfather when she was four days old and it was considered a name of honor, commemorating her grandfather's handsome war shield.

Pretty Shield had a happy childhood, and later described games played by Crow children.

Pretty Shield remembered looking down into the eyes of the grizzly for the rest of her life.

Pretty Shield knew people who knew Native American sign language, which is extremely rare.

At sixteen Pretty Shield became the second wife of Goes Ahead, whose first wife was Pretty Shield's older sister.

Pretty Shield gave birth to four girls and three boys, but one girl and one boy died as infants.

Pretty Shield wandered upon a woman who led her to an anthill.

Pretty Shield told her to rake its edges and then ask for anything she wanted.

Pretty Shield believed her people would follow the buffalo herds on the plains forever, as they had done for centuries.