 The Crazy Horse Memorial in 2020 | |
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| 43°50′7.45″N 103°37′16.67″W / 43.8354028°N 103.6212972°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[2] |
| 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.[3][4]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Walker, Carson (June 2, 2008). "Crazy Horse Memorial turns 60 with no end in sight". USA Today. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
- ^ Rand, Martin III (June 11, 2012). "A memorial for Crazy Horse 64 years in the making ... so far". CNN. Retrieved June 11, 2012.