Crazy Horse Memorial
The Crazy Horse Memorial, located near Mount Rushmore Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is the world’s largest sculpture. The colossal carving of the Lakota Indian leader, conceived by Chief Henry Standing Bear, was designed and expanded by Korczak Ziolkowski ... is privately funded by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation.
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Crazy Horse Memorial Mission
Continuing the progress on the awe inspiring carving of the memorial
Providing educational and cultural programming to encourage harmony and reconciliation among all people and nations
Acting as a repository for Native American artifacts, arts and crafts through the Indian Museum Of North America® and the Native American Educational & Cultural Center®
Establishing and operating the Indian University Of North America®
When practical, a medical training center for American Indians.
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Crazy Horse Memorial.South Dakota October 20, 2011
My trip to South Dakota-part 2- Crazy Horse Memorial.Koczak's Remembrance Day.
Born in Boston of Polish descent, Korczak was orphaned at age one. He grew up in a series of foster homes. As a boy he was badly mistreated, but he learned to work very hard. He also gained heavy construction and other skills helping his foster father.
On his own at 16, Korczak took odd jobs to put himself through Rindge Technical School in Cambridge, MA, after which he became an apprentice patternmaker in the shipyards on the rough Boston waterfront.
He experimented with woodworking, making beautiful furniture. At age 18, he handcrafted a grandfather's clock from 55 pieces of Santa Domingo mahogany. Although he never took a lesson in art or sculpture, he studied the masters and began creating plaster and clay studies. In 1932 he used a coal chisel to carve his first portrait, a marble tribute to Judge Frederick Pickering Cabot, the famous Boston juvenile judge who had befriended and encouraged the gifted boy and introduced him to the world of fine arts.
Moving to West Hartford, Conn., Korczak launched a successful studio career doing commissioned sculpture throughout New England, Boston and New York. His Carrara marble portrait, PADEREWSKI, Study of an Immortal, won first prize by popular vote at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
A childhood dream came true when he was asked to assist Gutzon Borglum at Mount Rushmore during the summer of 1939. Media reports about Korczak's World's Fair prize and work at Rushmore prompted hereditary Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear to start writing to the sculptor, appealing to him to create a memorial to American Indians. The two eventually met and even toured potential carving sites.
Back in Connecticut, Korczak spent two years carving his 13 1/2-foot Noah Webster Statue as a gift to West Hartford. The work drew national attention but embroiled the community and the sculptor in controversy, foreshadowing what was to come at Crazy Horse. At age 34, he volunteered for service in World War II. He landed on Omaha Beach and, later, was wounded.
At war's end he was invited to make government war memorials in Europe. But he had decided to accept the invitation of Chief Standing Bear and other project supporters and to dedicate the rest of his life to Crazy Horse Memorial.
Korczak arrived in the Black Hills on May 3, 1947. He worked on the project until his death on October 20, 1982, at age 74. During his nearly 36 years of working on the mountain, he refused to take any salary at Crazy Horse Memorial.
He is buried in the tomb that he and his sons blasted from a rock outcropping near where the permanent Indian museum will rise at the foot of the mountain carving. For the tomb door he wrote his own epitaph and cut it from three-quarter-inch steel plate. It reads:
KORCZAK Storyteller in Stone
May His Remains Be Left Unknown
Without Korczak there would be no Crazy Horse Memorial. Its history revolves around his own extraordinary story, which is reflected in his log studio-home, workshop and sculptural galleries at Crazy Horse. His life and work are an inspiration to many, especially to young people.
After his death the memorial continued to be built,overseen by Ziolkowski's wife,Ruth and seven of their 10 children.
It might be the largest sculpture in the world measuring when completed at 641feet (192m) wide and 563 feet (169m)high. The head of Crazy Horse is 87 feet(26m) high. In comparison, the faces of the US president carved in Mt. Rushmore are 60 feet (18m)high. Ziolkowski with approval from Chief Standing Bear and other Native Americans envisioned not only a monument to Native Americans, but also an educational and cultural center that currently includes the Indian Museum of North America, the Native American Cultural Center as well as workshops for Native American. Ziolkowski and his relatives have refused government funding for the non-profit project and instead rely on donations and admissions to the memorial for funding to complete the Crazy Horse Memorial.
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Crazy Horse Memorial - South Dakota Trip 2011
We traveled to the Crazy Horse Memorial after visiting Mount Rushmore this past June, 2011 on our trip to South Dakota. As with Mount Rushmore you drive up to these Memorials in Awe at how big they are and the work that it takes to carve these out of a mountain. While not nearly finished with much more work to be done Crazy Horse is still a site to see! They don't have any Federal or State funding and only get their money through donations and park admissions but eventually it will get done. I don't know if I will ever see it complete but it would be nice to someday. I think a car admission was $27 and if you wanted to get closer to the mountain than you see in my video you had to pay for a bus ride but I don't recall what that cost.
They have a wonderful North American Indian Museum that is 40,000 square feet with so much to see and the steps that have been taken to get this far with the Memorial. they also have a great gift shop!
Here is a little more on the Crazy Horse Memorial:
Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear officially started Crazy Horse Memorial June 3, 1948. The Memorial's mission is to honor the culture, tradition and living heritage of North American Indians.
The mission of Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation is to protect and preserve the culture, tradition and living heritage of the North American Indians. The Foundation demonstrates its commitment to this endeavor by continuing the progress on the world's largest sculptural undertaking by carving a memorial of Lakota leader Crazy Horse; by providing educational and cultural programming; by acting as a repository for American Indian artifacts, arts and crafts through the Indian Museum of North America and the Native American Educational & Cultural Center; and by establishing and operating the Indian University of North America and, when practical, a medical training center for American Indians.
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Crazy Horse Mtn Welcome Center
The Welcome Center at Crazy Horse Mountain which contains museums with thousands of displays as well as gift shop and history of carving of the mountain.
It's been 36 years since the construction of the first wing of the Indian Museum of North America.
When Korczak accepted the invitation of Native Americans to carve a mountain memorial to their culture, he determined that it would be a humanitarian project. He wanted Crazy Horse to be much more than just a colossal mountain carving.
He directed that the Memorial also would tell present and future generations the story of Native Americans by displaying outstanding examples of Indian culture and heritage - both of yesterday and today.
The museum has grown with the project. Each year, tribal members and others contribute Native American art and artifacts to enhance the collection and make it more comprehensive and representative of all North American tribes.
Native American leaders chose Crazy Horse for the mountain carving because he was a great and patriotic hero. Crazy Horse's tenacity of purpose, his modest life, his unfailing courage, and his tragic death set him apart and above the others.
He is a hero not only because of his skill in battle, but also because of his character and his loyalty to his people. He is remembered for how he cared for the elderly, the ill, the widowed and the children. His dedication to his personal vision caused him to devote his life to serving his people and to preserving their valued culture.
Crazy Horse died young, his life tragically cut short. His spirit, however, remains as a role model of selfless dedication and service to others. Today, his values and his story serve as an inspiration for people of all races.
My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes, also. -- Henry Standing Bear, 1939
TRIPPIN 2016: CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL SOUTH DAKOTA
This feels like a lifetime ago.
APRIL 2016 I took a 3500 mile road trip and enjoyed every single solitary second of it. So much beauty in this world. I would do the entire trip again in a heartbeat! Here are some short vids of select stops I made on my journey.
South Dakota - Mt. Rushmore
South Dakota - Wall Drug
South Dakota - Crazy Horse
South Dakota - Keystone - Black Hills
Wyoming - Devil's Tower (close encounters of the third kind)
Colorado - The Stanley Hotel (Inspired Stephen Kings The Shining)
The Sculptor's Studio Talk at Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Have you ever wondered how Mount Rushmore was carved? Learn about the tools and techniques used in carving the mountain. The talk is given in one of the original sculptor's studios and includes demonstrations of the tools alongside of one of artist's working models.
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Ground breaking of the new Native American student living & learning center.
Donna Muffy Christen of Huron, her husband, Paul, and members of memorial founder Korczak Ziolkowskis family watch as fellow project backer T. Denny Sanford of Sioux Falls turned the sod to start the learning center.
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KORCZAK TELLS THE STORY OF...
...HIS CARVING A MOUNTAIN
Dangerous drilling, blasting and bull-dozing on the largest sculptural undertaking in the world are features in this exclusive video. Mostly, Korczak narrates his own story - offering telling insights into the man as a sculptor, engineer, humorist, historian, philosopher and story teller.
...HIS PHILOSOPHY OF ART
Korczak poetically explains his artistic design of Crazy Horse pointing over his horse's head, and many of his beautiful wood and marble sculptural works are shown. The video contains extensive historic photography of the early days at Crazy Horse which is being made available for the first time.
...HIS FAMILY'S ROLE
Extraordinary family pictures show Korczak and Ruth's 10 children growing up at Crazy Horse - sons working on the mountain, daughters at the visitor center helping their mother. Ruth takes viewers up the mountain to see how the family of Korczak is continuing his work.
...HIS CRAZY HORSE DREAM
Korczak explains why he accepted the Indians' invitation to carve a mountain and tells why he insisted Crazy Horse memorial be a nonprofit educational and cultural humanitarian project financed through the free enterprise system.
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Crazy Horse Memorial
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument complex that is under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota. It depicts Crazy Horse, an Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. 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.
The memorial consists of the mountain carving (monument), the Indian Museum of North America, and the Native American Cultural Center. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain on land considered sacred by some Oglala Lakota, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles (27 km) from Mount Rushmore. The sculpture's final dimensions are planned to be 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high. The head of Crazy Horse will be 87 feet (27 m) high; by comparison, the heads of the four U.S. Presidents at Mount Rushmore are each 60 feet (18 m) high.
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The Journey Museum and Gardens is a museum in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA with 7 acre of gardens. It is set up as a journey through the history of the Black Hills, starting with the Native American creation stories, moving into the 2.5 billion years of history in the rock record with the geology exhibit, paleontology, archaeology, Native American inhabitants, and concluding with the pioneers that traveled west.
The Geology Gallery contains a wall that shows a 2.5 billion year rock record of the Black Hills area. The Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology provides artifacts and information for patrons to better understand the timeline. Along with the geology section is the paleontology section with fossils, much of which is on loan from the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in Hill City, South Dakota. A model of an on-site dig with a tent provides patrons with a sense of field work, sometimes with a retired paleontologist working in it who can answer questions. A model of a T-Rex and a Triceratops accompanied by a roaring sound track are also included in the exhibit.
After the Geology and Paleontology exhibits is the Archaeology Gallery. This gallery is split into five sections, according to time period. It is divided into five sections listed in the chart below. The Archaeology Gallery contains artifacts and information from The South Dakota Archaeological Research Center.
The Sioux Indian Museum, the next gallery after Archaeology, contains 5,500 pieces regulated by the United States Department of the Interior's Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Most of the collection is from the collection of a Native American arts collector who owned a trading post on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. This part of the collection was collected from the 1890s to the 1930s. The Sioux Indian Museum contains beaded items, ceremonial items, traditional Native American clothing, an exhibit of items made from animals, kids items , instruments, Native American saddles, and tipis. There is also a holographic Native American elder who tells three stories.
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Crazy Horse Monument
In this episode of Cheap Family Travel ( Nick, Regan, Maggie, and Kate visited the Crazy Horse Monument in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Sixty-two years ago Korczak Ziolkowski started carving a monument to the Indian chief, Crazy Horse. Where is Crazy Horse Memorial? In the Black Hills of South Dakota, just up the road from Custer State Park and Mount Rushmore, rises the crazy Horse Memorial. Korczak began carving the Crazy Horse Monument in 1948. Since his death, his wife and seven of his ten children are continuing to work to complete the monument dedicated to all North American Indian tribes. Make sure you visit the North American Indian Museum to learn all about Crazy Horse and the Lakota People. This mountain in the Black Hills South Dakota is unique and well worth a visit.
The Crazy Horse Memorial draws millions of visitors every year to witness a national treasure in progress. The monument is privately funded, and when finished, the project will include the Indian Museum of North America, a university, and an Indian cultural center.
The kids of Cheap Family Travel enjoyed the visit to the Crazy Horse Memorial, especially the tour of Korczak's home and the laser light show that is displayed right on the monument every night. For history, culture, and fun, the Crazy Horse Memorial is a must see in South Dakota.
United Native Americans Hosts Tribal Sovereignty Forum at Mount Rushmore 8-29-2010
United Native Americans Invites You To Both Attend and Participate In Our Upcoming Tribal Sovereignty Forum at Mount Rushmore.
This Coming August 29, 2010 will mark the 40th Anniversary of the historic Reclaiming of Our Sacred Paha Sapa (Black Hills of 1970). On this day, we will gather at the Amphitheater at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota to reflect upon the 1970 occupation in a spiritual way, to renewing friendships and bonds formed at that time. We come to pray, to educate The Youth about the Importance of Protecting Our Sacred Sites, and to use this opportunity for our people to be near the place of our origin, the Paha Sapa.
Additionally, we hope to coordinate Tribal Leaders who will discuss the needs of our People and move forward with real resolutions to The Issues Each Reservation Has. Such as Better Health Care on Our Reservations, Schools and Colleges, Red Road Teachings, Language Preservation, Suicide Prevention, Treaty Rights, Tribal Police Force, Water Preservation, Better Housing, Renewable energy's. Traditional dancers and Drums are Welcome to participate.
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*Lehman L. Brightman-President of UNA-Leader of The Take Over of Mount Rushmore 1970.
*A.Gay Kingman-Executive Director of The Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association.
*Richie Richards-UC Berkeley
*Paul Robertson-Oglala Lakota College
*Barbara Elk-Writer, Poet
*Kiera-Dawn Kolson-singer,songwriter,motivational speaker
We are extending open invitations to the Inter-Tribal Community and their families to join us, in this historic and educational event. Please RSVP at (605) 484-3036 or (510)672-7187
Our Event Is 100% Free. But, Persons Driving to and from Our Event Must Pay For Parking. There will be a car pool from the Mother Butler Community Center to Mt.Rushmore. Also there will be a community feed, for those of you who would like to car pool or donate food please contact: Christy Ryan:(605)431-6358 or Cjryan07@yahoo.com
Parking Fee: $10.00 - Annual Pass (Cars,Motorcycles and RV's) $50.00 Commercial Bus - Day
For More Information On How To Donate, Sponsor, Present a Work Shop and or Be a Participate. Please Contact: A. Gay Kingman, M.Ed. Executive Director Member, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association 1926 Stirling St. Rapid City, SD 57702 Cell: (605)-484-3036 Fax: (605)-343-3074 E-mail: KingmanWapato@rushmore.com or Quanah Parker Brightman VP of United Native Americans,Inc. 2434 Faria Ave Pinole, CA 94564 Cell: (510)-672-7187 qbrightman75@hotmail.com
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Everybody Belongs Part 2
Title: 'Everybody Belongs'... Out of the Basement
Inspired by a Native Women Activists course, students sought out to make a documentary using the embarrassing physical location of the University of South Dakota's American Indian Studies Department an the $5.5 million South Dakota Oral History Center as a symbol to challenge USD's neglectful treatment of Native Studies and Native American students. The product, the film 'Everybody Belongs'... Out of the Basement, has grown into much more then just a class project and is now being utilized as a tool to generate substantive change at a university with a poor track record when it comes to Native issues. In addition to an environmentally toxic physical location, these issues include a poor retention rate of Native students at USD, under representation of Natives in the student body as well as faculty, administrative, and Board of Regents positions, poor relationships with South Dakota's tribal colleges, underdeveloped recruitment strategies, and a racially hostile campus climate.
It should be noted that since the film's debut, the location of the AIS Department has moved to the third floor of another century-old building (the SDOHC is still housed in the basement of Dakota Hall), and the mold was merely spray-painted over by USD's facilities management. The filmmakers created the 7-point Strategic Plan to advance USD into a flagship institution for Native education listed below. It remains to be seen if USD will follow their advice.
1. Protect the integrity of Native representation on campus
2. Tuition waiver for Native students
3. Adequate and up-to-date facilities for Native students that reflect the University's special relationship with its Native population.
4. An effective recruitment plan
5. Protecting and preserving the integrity of the Native Studies Department
6. Native advisory committee at the administrative level
7. Requiring cultural competency courses
Ojibwe Author David Treuer on Retelling the History of “Indian Life Rather Than Indian Death”
- President Trump is under fire for appearing to joke about the genocide of indigenous people as part of a racist attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren. After Warren formally entered the 2020 presidential race, Trump tweeted, “Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” Trump appeared to reference the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation in the 1830s of indigenous people from the Southeast, which killed thousands. We continue our discussion with David Treuer, author of the stunning new book, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee,” an examination of Native America from 1890 to the present day. The book takes its name from the 1970 classic by Dee Brown, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” which tells the story of the Wounded Knee massacre. Treuer’s powerful mix of memoir, extensive interview and storytelling presents decades of indigenous history that have been sidelined by the mainstream. David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
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American Indian Activist Russell Means Powerful Speech, 1989
Legendary Russell Means harshly criticizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian leadership of reservations. One of a kind, RIP November 10, 1939 -- October 22, 2012
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Russell was an Oglala Sioux activist for the rights of American Indian people. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968, and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage.
Russell Means has lived a life like few others in this century -- revered for his selfless accomplishments and remarkable bravery. He was born into a society and guided by a way of life that gently denies the self in order to promote the survival and betterment of family and community. His culture is driven by tradition, which at once links the past to the present.
Russell Means was once called the biggest, baddest, meanest, angriest, most famous American Indian activist of the late 20th century.
He led a 71-day armed standoff in 1973 against federal agents at Wounded Knee, a tiny hamlet in the heart of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation.
It is considered to be one of his most famous act of defiance, however, occurred at Wounded Knee on February 27, 1973. Responding to the numerous murders perpetrated by puppet tribal governments and the extreme conditions of oppression, the takeover at Wounded Knee revisited the sight of the American Indian massacre at the hands of U.S. soldiers in 1890.
Ever vigilant for his cause, Russell has been lauded by the international community for his tireless efforts.
Later, he used film as a vehicle for his advocacy, thus enabling him to use different means to communicate his vital truths. Through the power of media, his vision was to create peaceful and positive images celebrating the magic and mystery of his American Indian heritage.
In contemplating the fundamental issues about the world in which we live, he was committed to educating all people about our most crucial battle-the preservation on the earth.
Means joined The Longest Walk in 1978 to protest a new tide of anti-Indian legislation including the forced sterilization of Indian women. Following the walk, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution saying that national policy was to protect the rights of Indians, to believe, express and exercise their traditional religions, including but not limited to access to sites, use and possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites.
Russell Means has been called the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse by the Los Angeles Times and recognized as a natural leader with a fearless dedication and indestructible sense of pride.
He took pride in having instituted programs for the betterment of his people: notable, the Porcupine Health Clinic (the only non government funded clinic in Indian Country) and KILI radio, the first Indian owned radio station.
Today, one of his principle goals has been the establishment of a Total Immersion School, which is based on a concept created by the Maori people of New Zealand, where children are immersed in the language, culture, science, music and storytelling of their own people.
Russell wanted to adapt this total immersion concept to the Indian way of life and philosophy which is taught from a perspective that will nurture a new generation of proud children educated in the context of their own heritage.
Russell Means has devoted his life to eliminating racism of any kind, and in so doing he leaves a historical imprint as the most revolutionary Indian leader of the late twentieth century.
Russell's commitment to uplift the plight of his people escalated when he served as director of Cleveland's American Indian Center.
It was there he met Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, and embarked upon a relationship that would rocket them both into national prominence.
If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. --Russell Means
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