I finally located the burial of Black Moon, the Hunkpapa, cousin to Sitting Bull and more information on him. Black Moon and his cousin Four Horn were buried close together. I also have an oral testimony of his burial. I have to find out which one was at the Little Big Horn.

A peace commission had been sent from Washington to Fort Laramie with General Sherman at its head. Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and other hostile chiefs had gone with several thousand followers into the wild region northwest of the Black Hills. At the request of the United States, Father De Smet left his home at St. Louis and journeyed by steamboat up the Missouri River to Fort Rice near the mouth of Cannonball River in North Dakota. From here he set out alone with an interpreter and escort of Indians for the camp of the hostiles. He found these near the junction of the Powder and Yellowstone rivers. He was received joyfully by them and here on June 21st he held a great council with 5,000 hostile Sioux. Father De Smet was given a seat in the center near the two head chiefs, Four Horns and Black Moon. His large white banner of peace was placed beside him. His own account says:

The council was opened with songs and dances, noisy, joyful and very wild, in which the warriors alone took part. Then Four Horns lighted his calumet of peace; he presented it first solemnly to the Great Spirit, imploring his light and favor, and then offered it to the four cardinal points, to the sun and the earth, as witnesses to the action of the council. Then he himself passed the calumet from mouth to mouth. I was the first to receive it, with my interpreter, and every chief was placed according to the rank that he held in the tribe. Each one took a few puffs. When the ceremony of the calumet was finished, the head chief addressed me, saying, "Speak, Black-robe, my ears are open to hear your words.

The white haired missionary was then sixty-seven years old, with a face calm, mild and peaceful, which all loved to look upon. He spoke to the fierce Indians as to children, told them the terms of peace he brought them and pointed out the danger and folly of fighting the white man. At the close of his speech Chief Black Moon said:

We understand the words the Black-robe has spoken. They are good and full of truth. This land is ours. Here our fathers were born and are buried. We wish, like them, to live and to be buried here. We have been forced to hate the whites. Let them treat us like brothers and the war will cease. Let them stay at home. We will never go to trouble them. Thou, Messenger of Peace, hast given us a glimpse of a better future. Let us throw a veil over the past and let it be forgotten. Some of our warriors will go with you to Fort Rice to hear the words of the Great Father's commissioners. If they are acceptable peace shall be made.

— LaDonna Brave Bull Allard