In 1942, Crazy Horse’s sacred medicine bundle was buried underground in Nebraska; decades later, the family returned to find its landmark gone

• Image AI generatedFor decades, a small piece of Crazy Horse’s history may have been sitting beneath the ground in Minatare, Nebraska, with no marker to identify it.
• The object was not a weapon or a famous portrait of the Oglala Lakota leader.
• It was his medicine bundle, a private collection of sacred belongings that was treated with great care by the people who inherited responsibility for it.