This approach would require the cooperation of Fort Sill, which maintains the cemetery, and ideally the consultation of the Apache communities connected to the site.

It would also raise the same questions about the appropriateness of disturbing the dead that any examination of the grave would raise.

Ground-penetrating radar and similar technologies can detect the presence of buried remains without excavation.

Such technology has been used at other historical sites to assess the condition and extent of burials without the more disruptive process of actual excavation.

Whether this approach has been formally proposed to Fort Sill authorities, and what the response has been, is not fully documented in the public record.