A monument to the Lakota Sioux warrior, Crazy Horse, is under construction in the black hills of South Dakota. Korczak Ziolkowski, a sculptor, who also worked on Mount Rushmore, began the project in 1948. Ziolkowski was born on September 6, 1908, -thirty-onethirty-one years to the day after Crazy Horse died. A Sioux chief asked Ziolkowski, if he would create a monument to honor Crazy Horse, and other Indian heroes. Ziolkowski designed a sculpture of Crazy Horse on horseback that, when it is completed, will be the largest statue in the world. The sculpture is being shaped from Thunderhead Mountain, a six-hundred-foot granite rock. Tons of rock have been blasted, from the mountain. The sculptor died in 1982 but his widow, children, and grandchildren have carried on the work. There has been no government funding, so, they have paid for the work entirely with donations and admission fees. By the middle of the twenty-first century the monument should be finished.