The Crazy Horse memorial could be the world’s largest sculpture

The Oglala Lakota chief Henry Standing Bear gave the Crazy Horse Memorial a commission in the late 1930s as a retort to Mount Rushmore, and it has been under construction since 1948.

Without any help from the US federal government, only private donations are used to pay for the memorial. There is currently no set deadline for completion; nevertheless, Crazy Horse's face was finished and dedicated in 1998. The Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation frequently assumes leadership roles in cultural, social, and educational activities, such as the Volksmarch, which is the only time the general public is permitted access to the monument grounds. With more than a million visitors a year, the foundation gets the majority of its funding from tourist fees. The monument etched into Thunderhead Mountain in South Dakota will be around 563 feet tall when it is finished.

Controversy has surrounded the memorial. The Crazy Horse statue is intended to honor the spirit of the late Crazy Horse and all Native Americans, according to Ziókowski, the man who built the Crazy Horse Memorial. It is commonly known that Crazy Horse preferred not to have his picture taken while he was alive and that he is believed to be interred in an obscure place. Many Native Americans still disagree with the memorial's intended purpose, notwithstanding Henry Standing Bear of the Lakota tribe's belief in the sincerity of the intentions. The monument has been compared by its detractors to the degradation and desecration of Crazy Horse's ideas as well as the Black Hills' ecosystem and geography.