Welcome to the Crazy Horse Memorial. The Crazy Horse Memorial is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. "Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear officially started Crazy Horse Memorial June 3, 1948. The Memorial’s mission is to honor the culture, tradition and living heritage of North American Indians (crazyhorsememorial.org)." Korczak passed away in 1982, but his work on the memorial is carried out by his children today.
As you can see, you can glimpse Crazy Horse's horse's head.
You can see the scaffolding where the workers walk on. The face of Crazy Horse was finished on June 3, 1998 on the 50th anniversary.
A few amazing sculptures.
A teepee.
The 1/34th scale model of the memorial.
A little history on Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse was one of the chiefs that fought in the Sioux Wars and in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In May of 1877, he and the other Oglala leaders arrived in Nebraska as a step towards a formal surrender. In September of 1877, Crazy Horse and Lieutenant Lee accompanied by other Touch the Cloud and other Indian scouts set off for Fort Robinson. Upon arriving that evening outside the adjutant's office, Lieutenant Lee was informed that he was to turn Crazy Horse over to the Officer of the Day. Lee protested and hurried to Bradley's quarters to debate the issue, but without success. Bradley had received orders that Crazy Horse was to be arrested and taken under the cover of darkness to Division Headquarters. Lee turned the Oglala war chief over to Captain James Kennington, in charge of the post guard, who accompanied Crazy Horse to the post guardhouse. Once inside, Crazy Horse struggled with the guard and Little Big Man and attempted to escape. Just outside the door, Crazy Horse was stabbed with a bayonet by one of the members of the guard.
MudLynn and I are so tiny next to this scale model.
"My lands are where my lie buried."
A scale drawing of the mountain, a picture of what it will look like when completed.
The mountain's progress.
This is what I regretted once I reached Montana. You can actually take home a piece of the mountain that was blasted off during the carving.
MudLynn and I with Crazy Horse behind us. Dogs are allowed in the visitor's center, but they have to be carried. We didn't know this until my dad and I came outside to check on Mom and MudLynn since someone had to stay with her.
MudLynn was pretty sacked out after her trip to Crazy Horse.
For more information about the Crazy Horse Memorial, check out http://crazyhorsememorial.org
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