Whatever last conversation passed between them is not part of the documented record.

When Crazy Horse was dead, the question of what would happen next became urgent.

The Body, The Night, The Departure

The Army, having just killed one of the most significant living symbols of Lakota resistance, faced an immediate question: what would happen to the body?

There was no formal military plan for this.

Crazy Horse was not an Army officer who would receive military honors, and he was not a treaty-recognized leader who would be the subject of diplomatic protocol.

He was a prisoner — a prisoner who had just died in a struggle at the guardhouse door.