It's an awesome story! He was torn in half and came back to make his world whole. I have a huge appreciation for the Lakota history. If you can find it, James Walker lived amongst them for years and is last and only documented account of their spirituality. It's so intense and it's like reading the Bible through their eyes. Their version is honestly not that different minus the hatred and bs animosity of dominion. It can seriously even parallel Greek mythology. 
Absolutely, fighting women and children didn't interest the warriors- they'd rather capture them for useful purposes lol! Wives, kids haha.. more kids they captured meant more people to get firewood! The Parker story haunts me to this day.. she was captive, became the Chief's wife and honored. When they slaughtered her village and took her away from her family she died, her baby died, they died trying to escape the Fort. Her son was a warrior and started a war against white men to get his mother back home but she died beforehan