The victims were buried in a mass grave on a hill overlooking the site. Today, the cemetery and surrounding grounds are cared for by the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. For the Lakota people, the site remains sacred ground – a place of mourning, remembrance, and resilience.

The scars of the massacre are intergenerational, and the trauma did not end in 1890; it echoes through the lived experience of Lakota descendants today.