It is also one of the factors that makes the continued protection of the burial site, across a period of deliberate cultural suppression, remarkable if it was maintained.

The Meaning Of The Medicine Line For His People

The concept of the Medicine Line — the border between the United States and Canada — was significant for the Plains peoples of the 1870s as a boundary beyond which American military authority could not legally pursue.

For Sitting Bull and his followers, the Medicine Line provided a specific sanctuary after the Little Bighorn.

For Crazy Horse, who chose not to cross the Medicine Line and instead surrendered at Fort Robinson, it represented a path not taken.