Yesterday Nan and I went to Mt. Rushmore and the Chief Crazy Horse monument. The Chief monument was kind of interesting. The tribe hired a sculptor to sculpt this thing. He was using no public funds, even though the government offered him $10 million twice. He started in the 1940's. You can see in the picture the hole in the monument. That is 10 stories high, and took 10 years to blast through. The sculptor died a few years ago. Now 7 of his 10 kids are working on it. If that's all they got done in 60 years, I wonder if there will be any 100% indians in the U.S. when it finally gets done.
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