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  2. Crazy Horse Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Crazy Horse Memorial. /  43.8354028°N 103.6212972°W  / 43.8354028; -103.6212972. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Markers honoring the Indians who fought at Little Big Horn, including Crazy Horse, have been added to those of the U.S. troops. On Memorial Day, 1999, the first of five red granite markers denoting where warriors fell during the battle were placed on the battlefield for Cheyenne warriors Lame White Man and Noisy Walking.

  5. 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. [1] In 1950, Ziolkowski met Ruth Ross, 18 years his junior, who was a volunteer at the monument.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Battle of Slim Buttes - Wikipedia

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    Other assaults during the fall and winter convinced most of the Sioux and Cheyenne of the futility of fighting the soldiers. In May 1877, Crazy Horse surrendered at Fort Robinson and Sitting Bull led his remaining followers into Canada. The Slim Buttes battle site is on private land. A nearby monument commemorates the fighting.

  8. Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 45°33′54″N 107°25′44″W. Battle of the Little Bighorn. Part of the Great Sioux War of 1876. The Battle of Little Bighorn by Charles Marion Russell. Date. June 25–26, 1876. Location. Near Little Bighorn River, Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana, U.S. 45°33′54″N 107°25′44″W.

  9. 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 ...