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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.
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.
Crazy Horse's head would be large enough to contain all the 60-foot (18 m)-high heads of the Presidents at Mount Rushmore. On June 3, 1948, the first blast was made, and the memorial was dedicated to the Native American people. [1] In 1950, Ziolkowski met Ruth Ross, 18 years his junior, who was a volunteer at the monument.
The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: Three Eyewitness Views by the Indian, Chief He Dog the Indian White, William Garnett the White Doctor, Valentine McGillycuddy. 1988. ISBN 0-8032-6330-9; Marshall, Joseph M. III. The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History. 2004. Guttmacher, Peter and David W. Baird. Ed. Crazy Horse: Sioux War Chief. New York ...
The Spirit of Crazy Horse (work in progress), by Korczak Ziolkowski, Crazy Horse Memorial, Thunderhead Mountain, begun 1948. Approximately 563 feet (172 m) tall and 641 feet (195 m) wide. Approximately 563 feet (172 m) tall and 641 feet (195 m) wide.
Henry Standing Bear (c. 1874 – 1953) ("Matȟó Nážiŋ") was an Oglala Lakota Chief. A founding member of the Society of American Indians (1911–1923), he recruited and commissioned Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to build the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Crazy Horse Memorial Highway is the name given to two highways named in honor of Crazy Horse (circa 1850–1877), a Lakota war leader: A portion of U.S. Route 16 / U.S. Route 385 in South Dakota A portion of U.S. Route 20 in Nebraska
The last time I saw the Crazy Horse Memorial I took the tour bus that went up to the base of the mountain. The driver had said that the reason Korczak Ziolkowski had never accepted any government money was that he was worried that the money would come with strings attached, and that the monument would not get completed the way he envisioned it.