Crazy Horse monument

[Cinkala]

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Was the Crazy Horse momument proposed by Natives? Was it a Native idea?

Anybody who has information on it or just wants to discuss it... Let's start talkin! Lol

[Josiah]

This question was raised in another thread.

Was the Crazy Horse momument proposed by Natives? Was it a Native idea?

Anybody who has information on it or just wants to discuss it... Let's start talkin! Lol

The memorial was commissioned by Lakota elder Henry Standing Bear to be sculpted by Korczak Ziółkowski who is the same guy that helped on Mt Rushmore.

In 1929, Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, initiated the project to honor Crazy Horse by writing to the sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski, saying in part, "My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes, too."

http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org//faq/

The Polish-American sculptor had worked on Mount Rushmore in 1924 under Gutzon Borglum. Standing Bear and Ziolkowski scouted potential monument sites together. Ziolkowski suggested carving the memorial in the Wyoming Tetons where the rock was better for sculpting, but the Sioux leader insisted it be carved in the Black Hills, which are sacred to Lakota culture. After making models, Ziolkowski started blasting for the monument in 1948.

http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/APHistory/crazyhorse/crazyhorse.html

Ziolkowski died in 1982, and it was 16 years later that the face of the sculpture was completed. The entire complex is owned by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. Ziolkowski's wife Ruth and seven of their ten children work at the memorial, which has no fixed completion date.

http://crazyhorsememorial.org/webcam/

[Cinkala]

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