Which American Indian Lakota chief is the subject of a monument, begun in 1948, in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
Crazy Horse incomplete Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, near the town of Berne. Like the nearby Mount Rushmore National Memorial, it is a monument carved out of a mountainside. The sculpture was begun by Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski, who had worked under Gutzon Borglum on Mount Rushmore, in 1948. Plans call for the completed monument to be wide and high. Ziółkowski was inspired to create the Crazy Horse Memorial after receiving a letter from native Lakota chief Henry Standing Bear, who asked if Ziółkowski would be interested in creating a monument for the native North Americans to
Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota of five South Dakota counties entirely on an Indian reservation. (The others are Corson, Dewey, Todd, and Ziebach.) The county is named after the Oglala Lakota, a band of the Lakota people. Many of the county's inhabitants are members of this sub-tribe. The county's per-capita income makes it the poorest county in the United States. It is the only dry county in South Dakota. The newspaper for Oglala Lakota County is "The Lakota Country Times". The place of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre is located in Oglala Lakota County. The county was originally named for Peter C. Shannon, Chief Justice