we're going to show you the reasons that you want to visit Crazy Horse Memorial
in South Dakota my name is Darren Thompson I'm a self-taught Native American flute player...
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today we're in South Dakota at Crazy
Horse Memorial. If you're new to the channel this is April and I'm Wayne; we do a video
every Thursday. So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey! when you come here watch the movie take
the time to go through the museum learn the story it's really impressive now Mark
he's the youngest of the ten he still runs his quarry you guys and these boys all started on this
mountain when he was seven eight years old Mount Rushmore they removed 144,000 ton of rocks to
date these guys are a little under eight million tons they still have one and a half to two million
ton to go when are they projected to finish what they end up doing is like so many year plans the
five-year plan is from the wrist all the way to the fingertips the 10-year plan started last year
nine years they say you should be able to come back everything from the bottom of the left arm
to the top of the head should be done so we're looking at flowing hair both sides of the mountain
finishing off the left shoulder bicep tricep and they're already making cuts on the forearm they've
been building this since 1948 it's still work in progress but it's massive when Korczak started
he had about that much more technology than fred flintstone anybody in the mining industry
where they use this this goes to a diamond wire saw and this comes in a great big long roll and
a big spool they want to make a say a 40 foot cut the length of the bus they cut 80 foot of
this off they join it back together then it runs through this series of wheels for the cuts and
then at the end of that cut there's this great big framework a blue framework with wheels that power
it so basically it's a bandsaw or a chainsaw so it makes nice smooth cuts and then you see how smooth
that face is up there that's a really cool tool up there as well it's called a supersonic torch
and when they fire that up it runs on diesel fuel that flame that comes out of there heats up to
3800 degrees so they fan that over any finished carving up there it seals everything up it's
just as smooth as your two hands rubbing together you get to take a rock from the actual carving
got a piece of rock there you go this is the guy who wrote that book what's the name of the book
this is a painting of Korczak this hung in Catherine rose Gallagher's living room for many
years when her family was faced with challenges or difficult decisions she would point to the
portrait of Korczak and remind her children of the old saying the difficult we can do right away the
impossible will take a little longer i think that this is amazing Korczak felt so moved to dedicate
the rest of his life after serving in a world war to creating this memorial especially after
reading my book these Black Hills are sacred and i like his motto never forget your dreams the Pueblo
people uh led a revolt known to many as the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 where they sided with the Navajo
the Comanche the Kaiwa the Apache and the Hopi people to revolt against the Spanish
after they killed one of their holy people and they tried to convert them to catholicism
and they were so upset that they drove them beyond this river known to the state of the
Rio Grande river and even beyond that deep into Mexico so look all that up
but that happened on August 10th in 1680 and the instructions were when you hear the song
then it's going to begin... We want to thank you guys for watching our video all the way to the end. If
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