The Enduring Connection

The Oglala Lakota Tribe at Pine Ridge maintains its government, its cultural programs, and its relationship to the history that includes Crazy Horse’s life and death.

The tribe’s governmental headquarters at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, is in the heart of the reservation whose creation was part of the same historical process that included Crazy Horse’s final years.

The people who live there are the inheritors of that history — not in a passive, backward-looking sense, but as a living community whose present circumstances are shaped by the events of the 1870s and the reservation era that followed.

The burial mystery is, for the living Oglala Lakota community, not primarily a historical puzzle.