The direction is more consistent across accounts than the specific destination.

He was buried in a manner consistent with Lakota burial practice.

Accounts describe the body being wrapped, being placed in the land in the appropriate way.

Some accounts suggest he was placed in a scaffold burial initially — the elevated burial that was common in Plains culture and that allowed the body to be in the air before returning to earth — and later moved to an earth burial.

The location was known to a small number of people.