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The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse , riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land.
The monument was expected to be the largest sculpture in the world. When completed, it would be 563 feet (172 m) high by 641 feet (195 m) long. Crazy Horse's head would be large enough to contain all the 60-foot (18 m)-high heads of the Presidents at Mount Rushmore.
Korczak Ziolkowski had been focusing on the completion of Crazy Horse's horse at the time of his death. [1] Ruth Ziolkowski changed course, ordering that Crazy Horse's face be completed instead. [1] She hoped that the monument would become a tourist magnet once his 87.5-foot face was finished, providing needed funding for the project.
Upon completion, the head of Crazy Horse will be the world's largest sculpture of the human head, measuring approximately 87 feet (27 m) tall, more than 27 feet taller than the 60-foot faces of the U.S. Presidents depicted on Mount Rushmore, and the Crazy Horse Memorial as a whole will be the largest sculpture in the world.
Crazy Horse is a 1996 American Western television film based on the true story of Crazy Horse, a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota, and the Battle of Little Bighorn. It was shown on TNT as part of a series of five "historically accurate telepics" about Native American history.
The elders sent Black Shawl to heal Crazy Horse after his altercation with No Water. [3] She was known at the time as having skill in treating bullet wounds. [4] Black Shawl was presented to Crazy Horse as a potential bride when she was twenty-four, which was considered late for a betrothal. [5]
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