"My lands are where my dead lie buried."

The Crazy Horse Monument , as shown in the model, is a sculpture of the Lakota warrior Chief Crazy Horse astride a stallion with his arm and pointed hand stretched out over the horse's mane. It's been 64 years in the making, begun by Korczak Ziolkowski in 1948.  When finished, it will be taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide — the extended left finger is 28 feet long. Crazy Horse, a tribute to Native Americans, is the largest mountain carving in progress and will dwarf Mount Rushmore.  Crazy Horse, revered as a spiritual leader of the Lakota said "My lands are where my dead lie buried." His extended hand on the monument is to symbolize that statement.

 



Crazy Horse Monument
Black Hills, South Dakota
6.9.2014