Crazy Horse got his name from his father who was also name Crazy Horse; he passed the name on to him after his son had demonstrated his skills as a warrior. In august of 1854evertyhing boiled over in what became known as the Grattan massacre. The Grattan massacre was A small detachment of soldiers entered a large Sioux encampment to arrest a man accused of taking a migrant's cow, although such matters …show more content…
It depicts Crazy Horse, an Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski. It is operated by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a private non-profit organization. The memorial consists of the mountain carving (monument), the Indian Museum In North America, and the Native Culture position. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain on land considered sacred by some Oglala Lakota, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles from Mount Rushmore. The sculpture's final dimensions are planned to be 641 feet wide and 563 feet high. The head of Crazy Horse will be 87 feet high; by comparison, the heads of the four U.S. Presidents at Mount Rushmore are each 60 feet high. The monument has been in progress since 1948 and is far from completion. Completion is expected in 2020. If completed, it may become the world's largest sculpture, as well as the first non-religious statue to hold this record since 1967. The most recent is Russia's Mamayev