National Native American/First Peoples Heritage Month. By Connie Vines #Crazy Horse #Crazy Horse Memorial #Oglala Lakota

 

Crazy Horse Monument 

Sixteen miles from Mt. Rushmore is the Crazy Horse Memorial.

© All photos are from my son's personal collection. I have permission to post on this site.

The mountain monument is under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land.

3-dimensional depiction of the completed monument

A guide to turning a mount into a monument

Crazy Horse Memorial is being sculpted on Thunderhead Mountain.

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began the project in 1948. "He believed you can do anything in this world. Nothing is impossible as long as you're willing to work hard enough and pay the price." 

Crazy Horse Memorial honors all indigenous people of North America. This a reminder of the importance of reconciliation, respecting differences, embracing diversity, striving for unity, and appreciating life's deeper meaning as it has always been represented in Native American cultural values.

A glimpse of the sky and the Black Hills

Photos of work in progress

My youngest son has carried on the family road trip tradition. He and his son visited Mt. Rushmore, the Black Hills, and the Crazy Horse monument this Thanksgiving week. 

My grandson's reaction is an assurance another generation will visit and honor the ways of The First People.

Interesting facts:

Crazy Horse Memorial is the world's largest Mountain Carving in progress.

Korczak Ziolkowski married Ruth Ross on Thanksgiving Day, 1950.

Korczak and Ruth had 10 children, five girls and five boys.

3 of the 10 children and 3 grandchildren still work at the Memorial.

Crazy Horse was never photographed.

The likeness created was developed by descriptions from survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn and other contemporaries of Crazy Horse.

The dimensions are staggering:

563 by 641-foot sculpture-in-the-round is known as Crazy Horse Memorial. The immense work is as long as a cruise ship and taller than a 60-story skyscraper.

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Connie

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