The area between Fort Robinson, Nebraska, and the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota — roughly fifty to a hundred miles of territory — is where most location accounts point.

This is a large area, and “somewhere in this area” is consistent with a burial that has never been confirmed.

The specific landscapes within this area — the White River drainage, the White Clay Creek drainage, the area around Wounded Knee Creek before it reaches the site of the 1890 massacre — have been mentioned in various accounts.

The physical landscape itself is not particularly conducive to the kind of surface identification that would make a century-old burial visible without specific knowledge of the location.

Prairie grass, erosion, and the normal processes of the land have had nearly 150 years to reshape whatever surface evidence the burial might have created.