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http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/05/us/crazy-horse-memorial/index.html?hpt=hp_rr_7

I guess the American Native Indians will have to settle this issue amongst themselves. My feeling is that now that it’s started, for it to continue and still somehow make it possible to remain true to it’s roots – sacred and a place for prayers and time spent alone with one’s own spirit.

After having visited in person Mount Rushmore, having driven through Rapid City at the time which was really an odd feeling that I still remember to this day giving me goose bumps, I happened by chance to learn about the Crazy Horse project.

It was enough to tweak my curiosity and compelled me to drive to the site and see it in person. After learning about the Polish sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski single handedly taking it upon himself to carve out the mountain, I was left with the impression of dogged determination despite all odds of having it completed in his lifetime. I think it was more about proving his innate spirit as a Polish immigrant and maybe influenced by the second world war events.

In any case, I’ve been left myself with a huge impression on the historical background between George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Crazy Horse. Even to this day, the depictions of the countless battles between the white man’s willing to expand it’s land grabs and Natives will to resist still reverberates with me to this day in the way they were all rounded up and put into what I consider the equivalent of concentration camps that we today call reserves and Native territory.

My hope is that it will be finished in some sort of partnership between all parties to stand as a memorial in time between opposites and be a testament and witness to the NRGY of the Human unrelenting Spirit for Human Rights.

For sure it has marked me.