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Crazy Horse
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A monument to Crazy Horse is being carved out of a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota just 27 km (17 mi) from Mount Rushmore. American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began carving the monument in the 1940s, and after his death in 1982 members of his family continued working on the sculpture. The carved face of Crazy Horse, 27 m (87 ft) high, was finished and dedicated in 1998. When the entire statue is completed some time in the 21st century, it is expected to be almost 180 m (600 ft) high.
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Crazy Horse is the English name of the great Oglala Sioux war chief, Tasunka Witho, born in l842. The l868 Treaty of Fort Laramie established reservations for the Sioux, and they agreed to its terms, with the understanding that they would be allowed to hunt on their old ranges. Red Cloud and the Oglala agreed to a reservation located on the White River in northwest Nebraska.
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The Crazy Horse photo debate has persisted, perhaps, because many people find it inconceivable that a great war hero could vanish into history without a photographic trace. By 1877 photography was barely in its teenage years, but even farmers and foot soldiers were sitting for portraits.
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With Young experiencing health problems and committed to other projects from late 1970 through most of 1971, Crazy Horse capitalized on its new-found fame and signed its own recording contract, releasing two albums on Young's label, Reprise Records. Adding producer/keyboardist Jack Nitzsche and guitarist Nils Lofgren as semi-permanent members, whom the band met while recording After the Gold Rush, this quintet recorded its eponymous debut album, which arrived in stores in early 1971. The album contained many strong compositions, the highlight being a song by Whitten that received several cover versions, "I Don't Want to Talk About It," most prominently that by Rod Stewart on his Atlantic Crossing album of 1975. Also in 1971, the core band with Young recorded in a support capacity for Buffy Sainte Marie, appearing on her She Used to Wanna Be A Ballerina album.
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In a vision, Crazy Horse saw himself with a pebble in his hair in a hailstorm, protected from everything. In every battle he painted his horse in hailstones, and hung his medicine stone in a knot in his hair. The medicine held true, as he was never harmed by enemy bullets in any of his many skirmishes and wars. In the end, true to his vision, it was one of his own people who aided in his death. Two Sioux warriors, then turned into guards for the white men, were holding Crazy Horse's arms while he struggled against going into a prison, where he knew he would die. A soldier stabbed him several times with a bayonet in the back, resulting in his death.
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Crazy Horse was born with the name Tashunca-uitco in 1843. He was only 34 years old, when he died from injuries resulting from being stabbed in the back by a soldier at Fort Robinson while under U.S. Army protection. The date was September 6, 1877. He had been a great leader. Perhaps best know for his battle cry: "It is a good day to fight: it is a good day to die." Even in his youth, Crazy Horse had made a name for himself as a warrior. Before he was 13, he stole horses from the Crow Indians and led his first war party at nineteen.
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