High in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a monumental tribute to Native American heritage is taking shape, both in granite and in purpose.The Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation stands as a powerful ...

Ruth Ziolkowski, 86, is CEO of the Crazy Horse Memorial. She took over the project when her husband died, and she plans to see it complete in her lifetime.

The Crazy Horse monument in March 2012. When finished, it is expected to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high. It is the largest mountain carving in progress. Image: Matthew Staver/Landov.

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.

Crazy Horse Memorial; 12151 Avenue of the Chiefs, Crazy Horse, S.D.; (605) 673-4681, crazyhorsememorial.org. $11 per person or $28 per car with three or more people; active military, Native ...

The Crazy Horse Memorial -- taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide -- has been 64 years in the making. And problems in the underlying rock are now forcing the ...

It's taking awhile. The Crazy Horse Memorial — taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide — has been 64 years in the making.

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 Crazy Horse, an Oglala ...

The Crazy Horse Memorial — taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide — has been 64 years in the making. And problems in the underlying rock are now forcing the ...

But Rushmore’s duality still feels simpler than the layers of significance and controversy around the monument to Crazy Horse. The unfinishedness alone makes the project fascinating: At present ...

Ruth Ziolkowski, 86, is CEO of the Crazy Horse Memorial. She took over the project when her husband died, and she plans to see it complete in her lifetime.

It's taking awhile. The Crazy Horse Memorial — taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide — has been 64 years in the making.