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Jodi Rave: Crazy Horse Memorial

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MAY 3, 2001

"With the countdown on, Native students were told to keep their eyes on the mountain to watch 500 tons of rock be blasted from it. Later, students were loaded into vans and driven to the mountaintop to be photographed next to the emerging, nine-story-high face of Crazy Horse, one of the most revered warriors in Lakota history. Crazy Horse, the Oglala Lakota who refused to be photographed, is now the subject of a mammoth, 563-foot-high sculpture being carved from the Black Hills, land he once fought to protect, land still entangled in a 48 million-acre land dispute. . ."

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