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Crazy Horse Statue |
Two of the mountains in the Black Hills of South Dakota have been used to carve memorials to famous Americans. One, Mt. Rushmore where four of the nation's presidents are carved, and the other carving of a Native-American warrior, Crazy Horse of the Lakota Sioux, who engineered Gen. George Custer's defeat at the battle of the Little Bighorn.
The Mt. Rushmore carvings of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Jefferson. The sculpture was created and supervised by Gutzon Borglum and was dedicated in 1927 by President Calvin Coolidge.
On Thunderhead Mountain, Boston-born sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began work on the Crazy Horse memorial in 1948. Since 1995 it has been accompanied by the Native American Education & Culture Center.