sent him a letter proposing he carve a memorial in the Black Hills. The chief wrote that ‘My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes also’. Interested in the ...
The world's largest monument is also one of the world's slowest to build. In South Dakota, 70 years have passed since one man - and later his family - began to sculpt Crazy Horse, a famous Native ...
While the memorial is still under construction ... 1939 by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear to honor his cousin, Chief Crazy Horse, killed in 1877 resisting imprisonment by U.S. solders.