The Mystery Of Crazy Horse’s Final Resting Place — And The Search For The Lost Burial Site
He did not identify the location in ways that would allow independent confirmation.
Whether this was because he did not know, because he knew and chose not to say, or because he was using the kind of deliberate imprecision that characterized the community’s approach to protecting the information is not established.
Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota medicine man whose account of his life and visions was recorded by John Neihardt and published in 1932 as “Black Elk Speaks,” was a younger contemporary of Crazy Horse.
His account of the period includes the events surrounding Crazy Horse’s death and the grief and disruption it caused within the community.