| After the start of the carving of Mt
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| | September 6, 1877.
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| Rushmore, the Native Americans of the
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| | Crazy Horse defended his people and their
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| Black Hills wanted to have a sculpture
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| | way of life in the only manner he knew.
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| celebrating their own heroes. They wrote
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| | But
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| to a sculptor named Korczak Ziolkowski.
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| | Only after he saw the Treaty of 1868
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| My fellow chiefs and I would like the
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| | broken,
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| white man to know the red man has great
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| | This treaty, signed by the President of
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| heroes too, wrote Lakota Chief Henry
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| | the United States, said in effect: As
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| Standing Bear when he invited Korczak to
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| | long as rivers run and grass grows and
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| the Black Hills to carve the Crazy Horse
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| | trees bear leaves, Paha Sapa the Black
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| memorial.
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| | Hills of Dakota will forever be the
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| Korczal arrived in the Black Hills on May
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| | sacred land of the Sioux Indians.
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| 3, 1947 to accept their invitation. When
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| | Only after he saw his leader, Conquering
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| he started work on the mountain in 1949,
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| | Bear, exterminated by treachery,
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| he was almost 40 and only had $174 left
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| | Only after he saw the failure of the
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| to his name. Over the decades he battled
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| | government agents to bring treaty
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| financial hardship, racial prejudice,
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| | guarantees, such as meat, clothing,
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| injuries, and advancing age. For years he
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| | tents, and necessities for existence
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| and his sons were the only ones working
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| | which they were to receive for having
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| on the monument.
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| | given up their lands and gone to live on
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| Work on the sculpture continues today.
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| | the reservations.
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| When it is finished it will be 563 feet
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| | Only after he saw his peoples lives and
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| tall and 641 feet long. Much larger than
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| | their way of life ravaged and destroyed.
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| Rushmore. The story of how and why the
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| | Crazy Horse has never been known to have
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| colossal memorial is being created is
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| | signed a treaty or touched a pen. Crazy
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| told at the visitor center.
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| | Horse as far as the scale model is
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| If you go to the memorial at night in the
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| | concerned, is to be carved not so much as
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| summers, you can watch the Legends in
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| | a lineal likeness but more as a memorial
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| Light show. It is a multimedia laser
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| | to the spirit of Crazy Horse to his
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| light show with photos and animation
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| | people. With his left hand thrown out
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| projected on the 500 foot mountain side.
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| | pointing in answer to the derisive
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| The following was written by Sculptor
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| | question asked by the white man, Where
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| Korczak Ziolkowski in May 1949.
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| | are your lands now? he replied,
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| Crazy Horse was born on Rapid Creek in
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| | My lands are where my dead lie buried.
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| the Black Hills of South Dakota in about
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| | They made us many promises, more than I
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| 1842. While at Fort Robinson, Nebraska,
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| | can remember. They never kept but one;
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| under a flag of truce, he was stabbed in
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| | they promised to take our land, and they
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| the back by an American soldier and died
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| | took it!
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