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Mar 3, 2022 · Learn about the life and legacy of Sitting Bull, the Lakota leader who defeated Custer and resisted U.S. expansion. Visit his grave site near Mobridge, South Dakota, with a statue by Korczak Ziolkowski.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by ...
- 563 ft (172 m) (planned)
- Korczak Ziolkowski
- 641 ft (195 m) (planned)
- Custer County, South Dakota, U.S.
Feb 13, 2024 · Learn about the life and legacy of Chief Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Teton Sioux spiritual leader who resisted US expansion and was shot to death by Indian police in 1890. Visit the Sitting Bull Monument in Mobridge, SD, where his grave is located and a bust of his likeness is installed by a sculptor who boycotted the original burial site.
Visit the sculptures of Sitting Bull and Sakakawea on SD Highway 1806, overlooking the Missouri River. Learn about the history and controversy of Sitting Bull's final resting place and the school project that created Sakakawea's monument.
- SD Highway 1806, Mobridge, 57601
- (605) 845-2500
The Sitting Bull Monument, on Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Mobridge in Corson County, South Dakota, was built in 1953. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [1] It is a sculpture by Korczak Ziolkowski of Sitting Bull . [2]
- less than one acre
- Korczak Ziolkowski
- 1953
- SE 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Sec 13 T18 R29, near= Mobridge, South Dakota
Sitting Bull's grave at Fort Yates, c. 1906 Monument at Sitting Bull's grave in Mobridge, South Dakota in May 2003 In 1890, James McLaughlin , the U.S. Indian agent at Fort Yates on Standing Rock Agency, feared that the Lakota leader was about to flee the reservation with the Ghost Dancers , so he ordered the police to arrest him.
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Learn how Sitting Bull's descendants moved his remains from North Dakota to a hill outside of Mobridge in 1953, where he was buried with a seven-ton sculpture of his likeness by Korczak Ziolkowski. The monument honors the Hunkpapa Teton spiritual leader and his resistance against U.S. expansion.
