The uncertainty is not simply the result of inadequate research.

It is the result of a deliberate protective strategy implemented by his family and maintained across generations.

The location may be known to specific people within the Lakota community.

Whether it is, and who those people are, is not public knowledge.

The location may have been lost — fragmented by the deaths of those who held specific pieces of the knowledge, disrupted by the dislocations of the reservation era and the boarding school era.

No physical examination has confirmed any specific location.