The problem was that similar claims had been made about other locations.

And the people in the Lakota community who were considered most authoritative on the question — those whose family connections gave them the strongest claim to know — did not confirm the identification.

The pattern of a location being identified, generating significant attention, and then being either disputed by community members or found to lack physical confirmation has repeated itself multiple times since Crazy Horse’s death.

Each time, the result has been the same: a claim examined, a location visited, and no definitive confirmation emerging.