The people who came before him and the people who came after him are part of the same narrative.

The burial mystery is, in this larger context, a detail in a much bigger story about how Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous dignity, and Indigenous authority over community history have been asserted and maintained against sustained external pressure.

The mystery persists because the community has chosen to maintain it.

That choice is an assertion of authority over their own history.

It is, in its way, a kind of victory.

The Land And Its Witness