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Show HERALD DAILY Tuesday, June 3. 2008 A7 Crazy Horse monument turns 60 with no end in sight Carson Walker THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CRAZY HORSE, S.D. Sixblast ty years after the first signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from o finished. The carved face of Crazy Horse has been completed and a welcome center and museum are open, but the carving of the Lakota warrior's body, his horse, and a planned university and medical training center for American Indian students are still years away. Ruth Ziolkowski, widow of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who started the memorial on June 3, 1948, won't predict when it will be done. "To picture it 60 years from now, I'd like to think we had the first building, at least, for the university so that we'd actually have some students here," she said. "I'd like to see the museum enlarged and over at the foot of the mountain where it needs to be. I'd like to see the horse's head finished and polishing Crazy Horse's body and doing all of the finish work on it." Ziolkowski took over the project when her husband died in 1982 and shifted the focus to Crazy Horse's face, which was dedicated 10 years ago at the 50th anniversary and has helped draw more attention to the project. The sculpted head stands 87 feet high. The invitation to undertake the Carving came from Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear, who was prompted by Gutzon Borglum's carving of nearby Mount Rushmore to seek a memorial for Indian heroes. Associated Press CARSON WALKER the warrior Crazy Horse, when finished, will sit astride his horse with his left arm extended, pointing to his Sioux burial grounds. The likeness of V ing on this memorial he represents some of those struggles that he fought for a long time ago, of protecting our land base and our treaties. We're still in those fights today." Seven of the Ziolkowski's 10 children and several grand-- , children work at the memorial, which draws more than a million visitors to the southern Black Hills annually. It brings in millions of dollars every year, mainly through admission fees. The family has held to Korczak's admonition to refuse government help and instead . rely on private enterprise. The foundation started its first national fund drive in 2006 to raise more than $26 million toward the mountain carving's completion and expand cultural and educational programs at the memorial. In December, billionaire T. Denny Sanford, a Sioux Falls banker, pledged a $5 million matching grant, the largest ever. And in April, the memorial's scholarship fund topped $1 million in contributions to native students. To prepare for the first Crazy Horse was a famed Lakota warrior and leader who explosion in 1948, Korczak Ziolkowski used hand tools to played a key role in the 1876 defeat of the U.S. Seventh Cav- drill the holes. Now, a team of workers uses high-tecexpenalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. He died a sive equipment to create the year later after being stabbed in Nebraska. "What Mount Rushmore represents to Americans is what Crazy Horse represents to American Indians," said Robert Cook, a cultural specialist at the memorial and of the National president-elec- t Indian Education Association. "Crazy Horse represents the values of American Indian tribes of bravery, respect generosity, wisdom. So by be- - t ; V - .: S; - t :A 1 - - - - -- . t - A f .: V;. - ; " CARSON WALKER AP A Ruth Ziolkowski art work. e larger-than-lif- Rich Barry, one of the engineers, said that just as the project has evolved ovftY 60 years, "so have the challenges. "Imagine starting back in 1948 going up there with a hand drill and a hammer and starting to blast away on the mountain and finding anybody believing that you're going to even do it," he said. "Now all of a sudden people have really come around. It's very rare that someone says, 'Aw, it's never going to hap- MIKE lie in figuring out how to carve the other parts of the sculpture in relation to the face and contending with the natural fractures in the rock especially on the outstretched arm, Barry pen.'" Now the biggest challenges t-' if -' i fl M ii (i Press STEWARTAssociated stands 87 feet tall at the Crazy Horse Memorial Horse, S.D. The memorial marks its 60th anniversary today. The sculpted head of Crazy Horse in Crazy said. "We will do much like orwill mark Tuesday's 60th anthopedic surgeons do. We'll pin niversary. The first will dupliblocks together to hold them cate the initial 10 tons of rock blasted from the carving on together to meet the artistic June 3, 1948, and the second intent," he said. Two blasts on the mountain will be larger. O VROVO - 463 N. VMivcrsitvj Ave Awaken Your PUtc M the " I . 01-373-6- 677 IB tt Q Moh - SM 4:00 Pm 10:00 -- " r. ; ree ... 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