The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction in the Black Hills of South Dakota, in the form of Crazy Horse, an Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. The memorial was commissioned by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski.The memorial consists of the mountain carving (monument), the Indian Museum of North America, and the Native American Cultural Center. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain on land considered sacred by some Native Americans, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles away from Mount Rushmore.
The mountain carving was begun in 1948 by a Polish American sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski, who had worked on Mount Rushmore under Gutzon Borglum in 1924. In 1939, Ziolkowski had received a letter from Chief Henry Standing Bear, which stated in part "My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes, too." Chief Henry Standing Bear and sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski scouted potential monument sites together. Ziolkowski wanted to carve the memorial in the Wyoming Tetons where the rock was better for sculpting, but the Sioux leaders insisted it be carved in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota.Some of the stunning scenery...
Quick! Cover your eyes...Mother Nature has a sense of humor...
There they are - bigger than life! How cool is that?
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