Crazy Horse Memorial Documenary 2/2

[immawhofan]

I got there on a weekend where we could hike up to the face. I touched Crazy Horse.

[wenever4ever]

Went there this summer, and to see mount rushmore. Mt rush was a disapointing to this. And i didnt even know this existed. They have a light show at night and play music, while telling a story it made me cry. If you go during the day, you get a ticket to comeback threw the week for free. I recomend going to see it, and it is right off the main road, mt rush is atleast 40mins of driving threw windey roads, and cattle gates. Loved my trip there, would def recomend going.

[wenever4ever]

Went there this

[harpolew]

I really loved this vidieo. I live in Mississippi, and years ago, my mother, and I, along with a couple of relatives from Illinois went by and saw this monument. At the time, the man who started this monument was still living and we went into his home on a tour. In his home, he had a Herschede-Hall Grandfather clock, made in starkville, Mississippi, where I was working at the time.

[ComputerGamerify]

I hope its done before I die.

[flownder28]

Crazy Horse Memorial is way better then Rushmore IMO. Would like to be there for the finishing ceremony when they mount the feather on Crazy Horse's head. That will mark the completion of the carving.

[notavailableisnotava]

I was like only a head done in those years, Then they said mt rushmore could fit in the head. Then i was oh ok damm thas big. now i see why.

[creedens]

This family is what the world should be modeled after...you guys are incredible...the respect u so freely offer will insure safe and welcome passage to your heaven...or our happy hunting grounds...like your wonderful father.AMEN..HA-HOW.

[TheSitrock]

But never done....

[wildmandazza]

awesome , the polish man and crazy horse are the legends of the world ! wonderful people !

[wildmandazza]

awesome , the polish man and crazy horse are the legends of the world !

[wildmandazza]

awesome

[mario63ist]

I bet that the Chinese will finish this thing in one Year!

[SirPaladin]

I realize the continued carving of the sacred mountains is upsetting & would probably be better if they left it alone, but at the same time I would love to see such a hugely-abitious project actually get finished someday.

[marthawhitesvideos1]

Too bad it looks nothing like Crazy Horse. This looks like a full blooded Lakota, while Crazy Horse was half white.

[bigdaddy420able]

I go to crazy horse school chiefs rule!!

[ajuk1]

What's a nitch?

[banner1835]

WHAT WILL AMERICA BE LIKE < WHEN ITS NOT WHITE?

[CUMBICA1970]

This gonna take longer to finish than the Basilica of the Sagrada Família.

[wildernessjuggalo]

This is an amazing project! I think many many more native leaders need to be honored like this or in some way like this....especially on some scale of this magnitude.

[The1jzSoarer]

Neeeeeever going to get finished, the indians will just suck money out of it like they do with everything.

[Kaiser0214]

"we figure that since we made this far,might as well keep building it" - Forrest Gump would say that haha. crazy horse forever!!!

[Kaiser0214]

"we figure that since we made this far,might as well keep building it" - Forrest Gump would say that haha. razy horse forever!!!

[mikser]

But this is my point. Desecrating the mountain may as well be dumping plastic bottles as you put it. Native Americans of that period and it's fair to say many today would hold that this does not honour the great man's memory. Their philosophy would have found this alien. At no stage would they have tried to mould the land like this. That would have been unconscionable.

[xm377Moyocoyatzin]

The true grace of this monument if that it is NON-GOVERNMENT, NON-CORPORATE. It's a monument to the will of common people. It also stands in irony that it's a mountain statue carved and built by the people and for the people in a country that is becoming less and less by and the people and even less for the people as it was originally thought out.

[Mizvision]

This man's dream is in line with the spirt of anti federal and U.S. involvement. Very beautiful! God Bless

[elsoda]

when this is done, this is going to be like so OH MY GOD!

[futuristfood]

this is the most beautiful thing. and the ways behind it are also good. i think he is in that monument watching all...

[mikser]

Tragic that they could do this to the landscape. Crazy Horse would not have wanted this at all. This is a desecration.

[xm377Moyocoyatzin]

@mikser Native Americans built artificial mountains (pyramids/mounds). I'm sure crazy horse with a more modern and broad wisdom of his own race would have seen nothing wrong with merely carving a mountain than, say, polluting the entire gulf and poisoning thousands of miles of coastline and millions of fish. I'm sure he would agree more to a mountain statue than to people dumping their plastic water bottles all over the place.

[Mortskcab]

at least the face is done.

[cbjgdicad1]

Crazy Horse refused to even have his photo taken and to have a mountainside taken apart and his face put there is surely the last thing he would have wanted

[Mortskcab]

@cbjgdicad1 oh well... nothing crazy horse can do about it now!

[audja2]

Git R Done!!

[501stlegiontroop126]

wat year u think this will be done?

[TheUnNerved]

@501stlegiontroop126 NEVER. I grew up there in the 809's and 90's. It hasn't changed much since then.

[iohin]

@501stlegiontroop126 2012....

[KATZMANISGOD]

A real part of the history of America just may or may not be completed in you children's lifetimes.

[skahead63]

check out the real photos of natives in the tourist centre - fascinating info with each. the arrow heads in the museum are beautiful works of art. would have like to have got a lot closer to the monument though

[onojmai]

yeah. at this rate, with advancing technology, another 40-50 years? i hope so. gotta see it done.

[Theowest]

10.000 000 dollars!!?? He turned down to that!? :''O

[SiouxSyndicate]

onelove

[xRulerxLS]

Wow, they should accept the money from the government. It'll go faster and then people will actually be able to see it.

[marlenaness]

@xRulerxLS

no they shouldnt. the people who started didnt want government fudning. thats wut makes the monument so amazing! itll be the largest in the world and the government eont have interfered

[Rajjpuut]

I find it sensational and phenomenal that people can tie their dreams and projects on a grand scale like this one to the beautiful oral traditions of the Native Americans . . . .

[wapazo]

This is no honor, no true memorial it gives no reason for an Oglala Lakota to be proud. This carving desecrates the sacred black hills. This fake memorial is another trophy of euro american conquest honoring their pride and boast about the indigenous holocaust of north america. To desecr...ate nature is to desecrate the creator. This is a disgrace to humanity & the spirit of crazy horse and his people. This carving is another disgusting scar, made by the white man for the white man

[Rajjpuut]

I've been following Crazy Horse progress for about 30 years now . . . amazing! This incredible project in South Dakota and the fabulous capitalism of the North Dakota tribes in oil are both a wonderful testimony to real hope and real human dignity.

[GoszkaSliwka]

@wapazo You have no idea how You are wrong :(

[mikser]

@wapazo I completely agree with you. A Desecration of the landscape. To the Lakota the Black Hills were sacred. I can imagine Crazy Horse and his contemporaries would weep to see the destruction of the mountainside. A far better way of honouring the great man would have been to endeavour to preserve the Black Hills and the tradition of the Great Plains People. Not this over the top white man's memorial.

[UmusBejokeene]

@mikser I find it interesting that the pointing finger, as the most fragile part of the sculpture, will likely be the last part to be completed.

As work progresses toward it, I hope visitors will remember the great caution and patience required whenever our landscape is altered. All that blasting is irreversible.

[gzephier]

@wapazo i am part lakhota from CA with lots of relatives that still live on reservation's and while i feel its important that i myself need to visit SD one day and pay my personal respects to the spirit of crazy horse i sure as hell will not visit this memorial! out of respect for my tribe if even one person is against this memorial being carved then i will do my part and respect their stance on this desecration. hope that made sense.

[allkoolaid]

this guy is mmy great x5 grandfathers cousin

and im black

[callujah]

@allkoolaid you aint no fucking native amercian.

[allkoolaid]

@callujah sware im not lying im not native but its in my blood still

[TeamLibertyExpress]

I didn't realize the scale of this until I saw the guy working under the nose,...

he's about the size of a booger!

[deannaber]

The government probrably has there hands on that admision and donation money?? but there doing a great service to the real americans of this country!!

[bullymama76]

I think it's great they have not accepted any government funding. The memorial relies only on the donations and admissions fees to fund the project. I think too many people except to receive a handout from the government. This project is being done right. Peejay6424, you are right, the government took their lands and made numerous promises they did not keep.

[peejay6424]

It would be an insult to the First Nations people to take money from the government, who has put them into poverty,taken away their lands and made promises that they did not keep. Kind of like today's politicians - some things never change.

[teedeeiss]

peejay6424 - totally agree! "Took away their lands & made promises that they did not keep". Dang - ain't it the truth?!!! 1:45 pm March 20 2010

[maulcs]

"The financial philosophy has remained the same over all these years..." Yeah, well that philosophy is clearly WRONG. Come on.

[DoubleDutchBust]

2:22

[merhlin]

Awesome to be sure. Pretty incredible to believe that the entire Mt. Rushmore sculpture would fit inside Crazy Horse's head. It's hard to comprehend or conceive of something of this magnitude. Thanks for posting.

[juicediesel94]

why would you turn down 10 million. that is dumb stuff.

[asseeninYOURDREAMS]

no federal funding ... yeah.. it will take ages..

[twizz420]

@asseeninYOURDREAMS Well, it's also fucking MASSIVE so yeah it would take some time... Didn't you hear him say that all four heads from Mt.Rushmore can fit inside the head of Crazy Horse? That's insane.

[5tonyvvvv]

@asseeninYOURDREAMS Nothing is Forever, everything is Spirit

[RyeGrog]

I saw the memorial in the mid 70's as teen. It don't look like a whole lot is accomplished but the head is made. Wish it would be done in my lifetime. Still though it will be a great achievement if completed.

[jayhl77]

I've heard that the family is spending an unusually large percentage of the donations on private expenses. Private enterprise indeed.

[awesome913]

im doing a repot on them

[BarneyFlart]

It's going to be nice monument, but if this is all that's been done after 61 years, this project is several hundred years away from completion.

[addymail]

i think the same, i think that we aren't be able to see the monument if its complete,

i'm 23 now, and i think if i die, the head of the horse wouldn't be complete,

i think that the monument will be stoped like mount rushmore (that the same, the 4 heads aren't complete...mount rushmore would declare to be complete in 1941) so the same thing will be with this monument.

but its a beautiful monument...

sorry my english isnt very good, i'm from germany

[mikebe41]

you think the indian casinos would help ut..geez

[hottscott890]

I would think that.  It only makes sense.

[thewindowskid]

crazy horse sucks dont go to it trust me its a tourist trap

[5tonyvvvv]

really,yeah your right ,the are destroying a moutain just for a scuplture.good point

[5tonyvvvv]

but we live in a world of money today,its a great place to visit,we stole so much from the natives,so let them have something

[simpler43]

i will be there this year,been to yhe usa 23 times,i never got to see it,but i will this year a true dream come true,for me anyway,im now 65,and hope i can make it god bless america

[eyeojo]

Can't wait to have ya!

[daeclipse03]

yea I just got back from there a few weeks ago I traveled the entire region. Have you been to Theodore Roosevelt National Park or Yellowstone, I live in Central NY and it was for me a dream come true to go out west to visit all of that area absolutely breathtaking and beautiful :) I wish you good luck on your next trip sir.

[WhiteStarWoman]

thankyou so much for posting, this is inspiring!

[flashlightlegs]

all of these other indian tribes should help out with this so this thing can be finished

[cjms08]

the rez i live on we have donated money top this project i don't know how many other reservations can say that and we Cree not Sioux crazy horse was Sioux

[fxwgmike]

It has been a few years since I was last there but it is always a great piece of work to look at.

[mtpierre17]

i thought that this is amazing that they are doing this in south dakota and i am glad to say i was there! and i cant wait to go again!

[shadowspork]

I hope to see the day when this memorial is finished. This is already the greatest achievement that we ever made, as human beings.

[leekwesi]

wow this memorial is going to be simply amazing.

[MDD940]

yes...the sheer mass of this awesome monument is incredibly astounding