Crazy horse mountain monument timeline

Mountain monument under construction in South Dakota

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 OglalaLakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski.

Crazy horse mountain monument timeline

It is operated by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

The monument has been in progress since and is far from completion.^[3][4]

Overview

The memorial master plan includes the mountain carving monument, a Native American Museum of North America, and a Native American Cultural Center.

The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain, on land considered sacred by some Oglala Lakota, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles (27&#;km) from Mount Rushmore.^[4]

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