High in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a monumental tribute to Native American heritage is taking shape, both in granite ...

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. (AP) -- Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished.

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 private non-profit organization.

CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. -- A new milestone has been accomplished on the Crazy Horse mountain carving in progress in the Black Hills of South Dakota.