Crazy Horse Monument

Tuesday morning we visited the Wind Caves National Park and took an hour tour of the cave, the tour was fun, the pictures inside the cave were not great. On the way to the caves we came across a herd of about 50 buffalo, the calves are about 2 months old. They were on both side of the road, when we came out of the caves there was no sign of them.

Crazy Horse Monument is a sight to see. Standing Bear and his fellow chiefs hired sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski in 1949 to make a sculptor to let the white man know the red man has great hero's too. Korszak died in 1982 but the work is carried on by his family, I heard estimates of 40 more years to complete. You can see the dust flying in the last picture, they are drilling holes for blasting. I took the first picture from a mile away, Mount Rushmore could fit in the area of Crazy Horse's head and flowing hair, the horses head is outlined in paint. The hole under his arm to be is 10 stories high. The monument when finished will look like the model in the foreground.
Does Nita, who is part Cherokee, look anything like Crazy Horse?

Crazy Horse's left hand is thrown out pointing in answer to the derisive question asked by a white man. "Where are your lands now?", he replied, "My lands are where my dead are buried."

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