There is a second huge stone monument in the process of being built in the Black Hills not too far from Mr. Rushmore.  It’s a memorial to Crazy Horse, a Lakota Sioux indian chief who refused to sign a treaty and move his people to a reservation and was stabbed in the back by a soldier while under a flag of truce when he was only 35 years old.

When the American Indians in this area learned about Mt. Rushmore they wanted to have a monument as well, to honor one of their heroes.  They asked a sculptor who had won some national awards to come and build it.  He started it in the 1940s and it’s still only partially done because it’s being done with NO federal money – it’s all donations!

The sculptor, Korczak Ziolkowski, first did a small sculpture, similar to how Mt. Rushmore was done, and then used it as a scale to calculate where each section of the mountain needed to be blasted and shaped.

Here is the Crazy Horse memorial with Mt. Rushmore alongside the head of Crazy Horse.  This is close to actual scale of the two monuments!  This shows how HUGE the Crazy Horse memorial will be when completed.

This next picture shows the small sculpture next to the mountain, to show what it will look like when completed:

And here’s a picture showing the mountain that is being carved: