The question of whether those tools will ever be used — whether the institutional barriers to investigation will be overcome by the moral weight of the question — remains open.

The mystery persists.

The question of what to do about it is one for living people, in living institutions, who must decide whether the dignity of the dead — even the dead of a century ago, even the dead of a community that was dispossessed and imprisoned — is worth the accountability that answering the question would require.

Geronimo was a prisoner for twenty-three years.

He asked to go home and was told no.