Talk:Crazy Horse Memorial
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Was Crazy Horse ever a chief? to my knowlage he wasn't, but was, and still is, a greatly respected person.
what a crazy plan...--84.191.141.65 23:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Clarification
To clarify on the official status of Crazy Horse or as the Sioux people called him, Tashunka Witko; he was actually a great war chief as oppossed to a chief of a tribe, which I'm sure took many years to attain, if you lived that long. Crazy Horse died at age 27, Crazy Horse, war chief. Stabinator 00:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Correct, being shirted was his highest honor. Jolomo 00:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expansion
Obsviously this article should be expanded, but the most pressing question I had after reading this article was, "Who's responsible for the memorial now?"
Who owns the land? Is their an official foundation or group heading/funding the project? What group/company is working on the memorial (if anyone is)?
None of that was answered reading the brief article there is now. We should read some of the information on the official site and include it in the article. Cybertooth85 23:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Huh?
What does the string of words the fact that the memorial is "unfinished" may also hold true for the belief that the project may never actually be completed at all mean? ➥the Epopt 19:28, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Private funding
The last time I saw the Crazy Horse Memorial I took the tour bus that went up to the base of the mountain. The driver had said that the reason Korczak Ziolkowski had never accepted any government money was that he was worried that the money would come with strings attached, and that the monument would not get completed the way he envisioned it.
JesseG 06:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Native American Perspective
I have attempted to give a fuller picture of what this memorial means to Native Americans by adding some perspective by traditional native elders who strongly oppose this memorial. It seems critical to me to include this perspective, since the memorial claims to be honoring many of the very people who feel insulted by it. They should be heard as well, in their own voices. I also changed the phrase about several Lakota Chiefs requesting the statue to the statement that Zoilkowski claimed to have procured such support. Russell Means, in his interview, stated that "Ziolkowski gathered up all those old chiefs and gave them each $100 and asked them to pose and smoke the pipe with him, so later he could claim that he got their approval." Most accounts of the memorial list only one cheif, who may or may not have been representing the views of his people as a whole. Whatever the truth is, it is more accurate to state that Zoilkowski claimed to have the support of these chiefs (and by implication, the Lakota people) instead of stating his claim as fact. Danrunyan 23:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
