Crazy Horse Memorial

Crazy Horse SD – September 2021

Crazy Horse Memorial
As designed, this is what the Crazy Horse Monument will look like when complete. The effort is dependent on sufficient funding, which is not available at this time. Projected completion date is undetermined.
There is an Indian Heritage museum at the Crazy Horse site. It contains many artifacts. These are a pair of moccasins hand made by Grandma Lone Wolf from SD in the 1920s.
Conchita Pueblo Drum by Red Bird from NM.
Beaded Buckskin dress from the 1890s.
Headdress
Birch bark canoe, sealed with pine pitch and treated with pine pitch.
Thunderbird and Killer Whale Totem. The legend goes that the killer whale (orca) swam into the bay one day and scared off the salmon, so the people began to starve. The people called out to the Thunderbird for help. The Thunderbird swooped down and picked up the killer whale with its claws and took it out to sea. The salmon soon returned and the people were no longer hungry.