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The four presidents carved into South Dakota's Mount Rushmore are as stone-faced as so many cigar-store Indians. In contrast, a representation of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse now emerging from another Black Hills outcrop, 17 miles southwest of the presidential memorial, projects . . . concern? determination? ferocity? The brow is furrowed, the mouth turned down. The eyes stare dead ahead, intent. Crazy Horse, or Ta-sunko-witko (1842-1877), refused to be photographed. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski's mountain-carved memorial depicts traits of Crazy Horse described by other Battle of Little Bighorn survivors. It honors all Native Americans. The sculptor began the work in 1948 and continued unsalaried until his death in
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The four presidents carved into South Dakota's Mount Rushmore are as stone-faced as so many cigar-store Indians. In contrast, a representation of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse now emerging from another Black Hills outcrop, 17 miles southwest of the presidential memorial, projects . . . concern? determination? ferocity? The brow is furrowed, the mouth turned down. The eyes stare dead ahead, intent. Crazy Horse, or Ta-sunko-witko (1842-1877), refused to be photographed. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski's mountain-carved memorial depicts traits of Crazy Horse described by other Battle of Little Bighorn survivors. It honors all Native Americans. The sculptor began the work in 1948 and continued unsalaried until his death in
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