Crazy Horse was a Sioux chief who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn over a century ago and the enormous memorial dedicated to his memory was begun in 1947. Eccentric sculptor Korczak ...

The Great Sioux War of 1876 stands as a pivotal chapter in the history of the American West, marked by the valiant resistance of indigenous leaders against encroaching U.S. forces. At the forefront of ...

As people gathered, Chief Eagle introduced herself ... When I met Don Red Thunder, a descendant of Crazy Horse, at his house, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, he retrieved a cardboard ...

Learn more about the Lakota war chief. 1. “CRAZY HORSE” WAS NOT HIS FIRST GIVEN ... blazed a trail to Montana's gold fields through Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe territory that an 1851 treaty ...

Out in South Dakota, the Lakota people — known as Sioux — love Korczak Ziolkowski. For 35 years before his death in 1982, the sculptor carved a mountain into a memorial to Chief Crazy Horse.

This sculpture, begun not quite 60 years ago by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski (pronounced jewel-CUFF-ski) at the invitation of a Lakota (Sioux) chief, shows the warrior Crazy Horse on horseback ...

Ziolkowski, whose dream it was to honor American Indians by carving the 563-foot-high likeness of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse into a granite ... foundation president and chief executive officer.

The statue, envisioned as a freestanding sculpture of the great Sioux chief Crazy Horse, will be much larger than any of the Rushmore figures. Korczak Ziolkowski died in 1982, but his family ...