Carving Crazy Horse Out Of The Black Hills (Since 1948)

“It’s easy to feel affection for Mount Rushmore’s strange grandeur, but only if you forget where it is and how it got there. … The Crazy Horse Memorial has some of the same problems: it is most definitely an unnatural landmark. Some of the Indians I met in South Dakota voiced their own misgivings, starting with the fact that it presumes to depict a proud man who was never captured in a photograph or drawn from life.”