Finished just before WWII over 14 years, Mount Rushmore captures four key presidents six stories high in an astounding feat of artistry and innovation led by a Danish-American sculptor. Nearby the Crazy Horse monument begun in 1948 by a Polish-American sculptor symbolizes the native people being forced to live in shrinking reservations and to change their way of life of living off the land and the bison. Crazy Horse led successful Indian factions against the U.S. Cavalry and after he surrendered was stabbed in the back while in captivity. Today work is still slowly being completed on the huge sculpture which will include Crazy Horse on a horse pointing to his lands, where "his dead lie buried."
