The community’s ability to maintain that knowledge against external pressure is evidence of its own cultural survival and strength.

The third dimension is political.

The question of who has the authority to know — and to decide who else knows — where Crazy Horse is buried is a question about sovereignty.

It is a question about whether the Oglala Lakota community has the right to maintain private knowledge about their own history, or whether the fascination of the outside world grants outsiders some claim to that information.

The answer that the community has given — consistently, across generations — is that the community has that right.