The pattern of confident claims followed by contradictions reflects the deliberate nature of the family’s protective strategy.

Those who knew were not telling outsiders.

Those who didn’t know were willing to tell whatever they’d heard or guessed.

The historian Kingsley Bray, who wrote a detailed biography of Crazy Horse published in 2006, engaged with the burial question seriously and concluded that while various locations have been proposed, none can be confirmed from the available evidence.

Bray’s careful parsing of the documentary and oral sources represents the most thorough scholarly treatment of the question available.

His conclusion — reached after extensive research — is that the location remains uncertain.