Chief Crazy Horse Memorial

"My lands are where my dead lie buried."

-Crazy Horse

The monument was started on June 3, 1948 by polish
sculptor, Korczak Ziolkowski. "My fellow chiefs and I
would like the white man to know the red man has great
heroes, too" wrote Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear
when he invited Korczak to the Black Hills to carve
Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse was selected to represent
their hero because he defended his people and their ways, never signed a treaty, and was stabbed in the
back by an American soldier and died September 6, 1877.
It stands as the world's largest mountain carving. All
four president's carvings can easily fit in Crazy's horse's head alone.
The memorial includes the Indian Museum of North
America, the Native American Cultural Center, Korczak's
log-studio home and the "Legends In Light" lazer-light
show (nightly) projecting the history on the 500 foot
mountainside.

The face is 9 stories high, the horse's head will be 22 stories high.

1/34th model of Crazy Horse

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Nightly "Legends In Light" lazer show is spectacular!