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2. Crazy Horse Memorial - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Korczak Ziolkowski - Wikipedia

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   Crazy Horse's head would be large enough to contain all the 60-foot (18 m)-high heads of the Presidents at Mount Rushmore. On June 3, 1948, the first blast was made, and the memorial was dedicated to the Native American people. In 1950, Ziolkowski met Ruth Ross, 18 years his junior, who was a volunteer at the monument.

4. Crazy Horse - Wikipedia

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   Crazy Horse ( Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó [2] [tˣaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ], lit. 'His-Horse-Is-Crazy'; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) [3] was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory ...

5. Henry Standing Bear - Wikipedia

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   Henry Standing Bear ( c. 1874 – 1953) ("Matȟó Nážiŋ") was an Oglala Lakota Chief. A founding member of the Society of American Indians (1911–1923), he recruited and commissioned Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to build the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. [1] [2] He was a resident of Chicago's Hull ...

6. Ruth Ziolkowski - Wikipedia

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   Ruth Ziolkowski. Ruth Carolyn Ziolkowski (née Ross; June 26, 1926 – May 21, 2014) was an American executive and CEO of the Crazy Horse Memorial, a South Dakota monument dedicated to Crazy Horse which was designed by her late husband, Korczak Ziolkowski . Ruth Ziolkowski took over the responsibility for the construction of the monument ...

7. List of equestrian statues in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Spirit of Crazy Horse (work in progress), by Korczak Ziolkowski, Crazy Horse Memorial, Thunderhead Mountain, begun 1948. Approximately 563 feet (172 m) tall and 641 feet (195 m) wide. Approximately 563 feet (172 m) tall and 641 feet (195 m) wide.

8. Mount Rushmore - Wikipedia

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   October 15, 1966. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore ( Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum designed the sculpture, called Shrine of ...

9. War horse memorial sculpture unveiled - AOL

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   July 10, 2024 at 9:44 AM. A statue to commemorate a war horse that lived out its final days on Merseyside has been unveiled. The horse, named Blackie, served during World War One and was buried at ...