How do the Lakota feel about the Crazy Horse Memorial?

Polish sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski started work on Crazy Horse in 1948 after being asked by Henry Standing Bear, who was chief of the Lakota at the time to create it. read more

He died young, at the hands of an American solider who stabbed him in the back. Because of his humility and valor, his spirit lives on in the land and the many stories handed down through generations of Lakota Sioux Indians. The Crazy Horse Monument embodies this proud heritage of the Native American people. read more

Crazy Horse is commemorated by the incomplete Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, near the town of Berne. Like the nearby Mount Rushmore National Memorial, it is a monument carved out of a mountainside. read more

In 1876 Crazy Horse led a band of Lakota warriors against Custer’s Seventh U.S. Cavalry battalion. They called this the Battle of the Little Big Horn or Custer’s Last Stand. Custer, 9 officers and 280 enlisted men all lay dead after the fighting was over. read more