Crazy Horse Memorial
Mountain monument under construction in South Dakota / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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43°50′7.45″N 103°37′16.67″W | |
Location | Custer County, South Dakota, U.S. |
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Designer | Korczak Ziolkowski |
Type | Mountain carving monument |
Material | Pegmatite granite[1] |
Length | 641 ft (195 m) (planned)[1] |
Height | 563 ft (172 m) (planned) |
Beginning date | June 3, 1948; 75 years ago (1948-06-03)[2] |
Dedicated to | Crazy Horse |
Website | crazyhorsememorial |
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The monument has been in progress since 1948 and is far from completion.[3][4]