"The advertising says, 'An entire mountain is being carved in the likeness of Chief Crazy Horse by sculptor-genius Korczak Kiolkowski'. That man thinks big. ... This statue of the chief sitting on his pony is supposed to be about 650 feet long and 560 feet high. It will have a forty-foot feather sticking out from its head. ...

There are two things wrong with this statue. Crazy Horse never let a white man take his picture. He didn't want white people to look at him. He died fighting before he would let white soldiers shut him up in a stone guardhouse. He was buried the way he wanted it, with nobody knowing his grave. The whole idea of making a beautiful wild mountain into a statue of him is a pollution of the landscape. It is against the spirit of Crazy Horse. ...

The second wrong with this statue is that the time has passed when a white man could simply decide for us to build a monument on our behalf according to what he had in mind, in our sacred hills, without asking us. When he started it all over thirty years ago, he could still find Indians who were flattered that a white sculptor-genius wanted to do a statue of an Indian chief. ...

	He (Kiolkowski) admitted that nowadays Indians were cool toward his project, but brought a letter from a Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear saying, 'Please carve us a mountain so the white man will know that the red man had great heros, too.' This letter, according to Korczak, set the whole project in motion." (1)