Lakota warrior Crazy Horse has long been a controversial figure, so perhaps it’s only appropriate that his memorial follow suit.

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.

Towering monument to honor revered Native American warrior likely to take more than 100 years, but one family is determined to see it completed ...

In these confrontations, Crazy Horse designed big, idiosyncratic maneuvers using decoys and counterintuitive battle plans that confused soldiers, securing years of relative safety for his people.

The world's largest monument is also one of the world's slowest to build. In South Dakota, 70 years have passed since one man — and later his family — began to sculpt Crazy Horse, a famous ...

The foundation’s funding comes from donations and visitors from across the country. While the work has been ongoing for 72 years, there is no timeline to finish and no exact estimate on cost.

Over the years, Ruth Ziolkowski attracted celebrated entertainers and notable statesmen to Crazy Horse Memorial. Here she poses with actor James Whitmore who died in 2009.

In the last eleven years, over 400 students from 70 Native Nations and 29 states have successfully completed an academic program of The Indian University of North America® of Crazy Horse Memorial ...

John R. Beyer and wife, Laureen, visit the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota to experience the construction that has been ongoing for more than 73 years.

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 ...

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 ...