Crazy Horse Memorial
The Crazy Horse Memorial in 2020 | |
| Location | Custer County, South Dakota, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 43°50′7.45″N 103°37′16.67″W / 43.8354028°N 103.6212972°W |
| Designer | Korczak Ziolkowski |
| Type | Mountain carving monument |
| Material | Leucogranite[1][2] |
| Length | 641 ft (195 m) (planned)[1] |
| Height | 563 ft (172 m) (planned) |
| Beginning date | June 3, 1948[3] |
| Dedicated to | Crazy Horse |
| Website | crazyhorsememorial |
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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 Oglala Lakota 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. It is operated by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
The monument has been in progress since 1948 and is far from completion.[4][5]
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- ^ Walker, Carson (June 2, 2008). "Crazy Horse Memorial turns 60 with no end in sight". USA Today. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
- ^ Rand, Martin III (June 11, 2012). "A memorial for Crazy Horse 64 years in the making ... so far". CNN. Archived from the original on March 21, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2012.