The idea to build such a big sculpture (its dimentions are 563 by 641 feet) belonged to Korczak Ziolkowski. He spent 36 years of his life blasting away over 7 million tons of granite in South Dakota and died in 1982 leaving a blurred hint of a horse and rider. But the work still continues on this mountain-sized statue that is taller than a 60-story building.
then again, if the modern lakota as a group objected to this work, i would respect their wishes.
I was there and went to the museum and the tour.
Crazy Horse may have been camera shy, but he is long gone now. His tribe still remains though, and it is things like his statue on the mountain that will be there long after you all are dead and gone, but the story will live on through him. That is of course unless many of you useless and worthless people out there choose to destroy that as well! There are thousands of statues carved into mountains in this world, most of them very old. So old in fact, that without the mountain statues still being there, we would have had no idea of anything about those people, as they are long gone. That is what history is all about. Whether that history is good or bad in any one persons mind, it is STILL history, and deserves to remain as a reminder, either good or bad, well into the future, hundreds, even thousands of years from now. Stop being so selfish, and look outside the box, and into the distant future, and the education of people then.