Tran Nguyen Thang/ATNT Tours & Travel
The Black Hills area of South Dakota is not only famous for the four statues of US presidents carved on top of Mount Rushmore, but visitors here also have the opportunity to enjoy another engraving work (also in the Black region). Hills) to commemorate a heroic warrior of the Native American tribe of the Dakota region. The mountain carving project called Crazy Horse Memorial has been continuing since 1948 to the present.
The Dakotas are a large northern region of the Midwestern United States (including present-day North and South Dakota). Before the 19th century, this was the land belonging to the indigenous people of the Sioux Tribes. However, after Europeans discovered the New World, they began to migrate to new lands and gradually moved west of the continent. This is the cause of wars because of the struggle for economic rights between indigenous people and immigrants.
Since the 1800s, the number of European immigrants gradually went west. In the economic field, they look to buy animal skins from the precious Beaver skin to the common Buffalo skin. Especially at this time, the gold mines found in the Black Hills area attracted federal people to flock here to encroach on Indian land. This greatly affected the economic rights of indigenous people, increasing tension between the Sioux tribe and the federal government.
The Ogalala Lakota was the largest of the seven Lakota tribes led by an Indian warrior Crazy Horse around 1865-1866, who fought over disputes with the federal government at that time. Crazy Horse called on the Sioux tribes to fight the federal government to regain their lands, distinct cultures and Native American rights. He formed an alliance with the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in the Great Sioux War of 1876 (also known as the Black Hills War) with government troops. The most famous are the Fetterman Fight (1866) and Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), Indian victories that still stand out in American history. The victory established Crazy Horse as a heroic warrior in the history and culture of the Sioux Indian tribes.
The war was sometimes won and sometimes lost. In the end, for many reasons, the indigenous Indians lost the war. Even though he lost, Crazy Horse’s heroic image still shines brightly in the soul of the Sioux tribe.
He was honored by his descendants as the warrior who highlighted the fight of the Indian tribe against the invasion of immigrants in the 19th century. In 1877, he surrendered to federal authorities and also died in that year, only 37 years old. The heroism of the Indian warrior Crazy Horse is not only considered a symbol in the hearts of Native Americans, he is also admired by American history. The United Postal Service of the United States is honored to print his image on a stamp in the Great Americans postage stamp series.
After four statues of US presidents were carved on Mt Rushmore, an Indian descendant of Crazy Horse named Henry Standing Bear tried to ask the state of South Dakota for permission to sculpt a statue of Crazy Horse on Mount Rushmore along with them. president but this did not work out.
In 1948, Henry Bear founded the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to completing the Crazy Horse memorial mountain. The location chosen was Thunderhead Mt. located about 17 miles from Mt Rushmore.
The design work was assigned to Korczak Ziolkowski, a Polish-born crazy sculptor, who carved a statue on the top of the mountain with the image of Crazy Horse riding on horseback, pointing forward. It must be said that this is a great ambition of the Black Hills autonomous region because after completion, the Crazy Horse statue will have a very large size, larger than the four US president statues on Mt Rushmore. The length of the statue will be 195m, 172m high. Crazy Horse’s arm pointing forward is up to 80m long. The head of the statue is 27m high while the heads of the statues of US presidents are only 18m high.
The program began in 1948 and is continuing each year, progress according to annual financial receipts. Seventy-two years have passed, Korczak Ziolkowski passed away in 1982. His wife, Ruth Ziolkowski, and their children continued her husband’s unfinished work. Ruth died in 2014. Their daughter, Monique Ziolkowski, and her children continued their parents’ unfinished work.
It should also be noted that the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation does not receive support from the state or federal government. They want to be financially independent so they are not controlled by government funding. They sell tickets to get money from tourists to continue unfinished projects. It is unknown when Thunderhead Mt. recently completely transformed into the Crazy Horse Memorial mountain statue so visitors can enjoy another masterpiece of South Dakota.
In addition, the project also opened an Indian Museum of North America and the Native American Cultural Center to promote the culture and music of Native American tribes. At the same time, to have more income for the project.
The original New World was settled by Indian tribes, who today call them Native Americans. In addition, all people in the United States are immigrants from all over the world, coming here from the 17th century to today. For three hundred years, immigrants have had to leave their homeland for hundreds of different reasons to come here. They combined to create a new country, a country that respects spiritual life and human dignity. No one and no race can claim that this land was originally reserved for them and have a spirit of discrimination between this race and other races living together. Understanding this so that we do not have any guilt in the life of the United States. All white, yellow, black and brown are staying at the Indian house.
It is not without reason that the federal government favors Native American autonomy.
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