The area around Wounded Knee Creek, before it became notorious for the 1890 massacre, has also been mentioned in various tellings.

None of these specific locations has been confirmed.

The First Published Claims And Their Problems

The first published accounts of Crazy Horse’s burial location appeared in the years after his death, and they demonstrate a consistent pattern: outsiders claiming to know where he was buried, followed by contradictions from people with more direct knowledge.

Various newspaper accounts in the late 1870s and 1880s offered specific locations, usually presented with the confidence of writers who had spoken to someone who said they knew.

These accounts were frequently contradictory — different locations, different details, different levels of specificity.