Little Eagle and her family said tribal agencies and law enforcement had been slow to take her attack seriously. Cedar smoke from a family prayer drifted through the living room. Little Eagle said, sitting inside a safe house where she has been staying with relatives. To some, her story has become an example of the shame and indifference Indigenous women confront as victims of violence, even from their own communities. Little Eagle said she had been bullied and harassed, and failed by the very tribal systems she had campaigned to change. In the month since the May 16 assault, Ms. News of the assault of a young Native American leader traveled fast, shocking people far beyond Montana. Little Eagle was beaten and robbed inside a Billings hotel room by two other women. Wooing voters with coffee, doughnuts and vows of bringing new energy to tribal issues, she won as a write-in candidate, becoming her tribe’s youngest councilwoman at age 23. From the moment Silver Little Eagle decided to run for Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council, people dismissed her as too young, too green.
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