She was a Sans Arc. Mixed Day was her name as late as 1865. "She was a witty, sensible woman, with many cares." Sitting bull had two wives and three children at this time. (Vestal)

"Her grandson remembered her as a very good woman, who taught her son much in his youth and who was a jolly sort who talked a lot and made people laugh." (The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, 7)

Sources

• Stanley Vestal, Warpath : the true story of the fighting Sioux told in a biography of Chief White Bull (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1984, c1962; Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1934), 270.