75th Celebration for Crazy Horse Mountain

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 Ziolkā€¦
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.
  • Location: Custer County, South Dakota, U.S.
  • Length: 641 ft (195 m) (planned)
  • Height: 563 ft (172 m) (planned)
  • Designer: Korczak Ziolkowski
  • Material: Granite pegmatite
  • Beginning date: June 3, 1948
  • Dedicated to: Crazy Horse
Data from: en.wikipedia.org