Inside the controversial 70-year journey to build Crazy Horse, the world's largest monument that still isn't finished

In 1948 work began on Crazy Horse, a Native American monument in South Dakota. It's still not finished 71 years on. Here's what's happened.

Polish American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski designed the sculpture, thinking it would take 30 years to build.The finished version will be 563 feet high and 641 feet long and show a Native American warrior with long hair sitting on horseback. as it is about honoring a Native American hero. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Ziolkowski spent his life working on the granite, but he did not live to even see the finished face. "Go slowly, so you do it right,"Here's what the sculpture is like so far, and why finishing it is taking so long. In South Dakota's Black Hills region, 5,000 square miles of mountains and Penderosa pines, is the unfinished outline of the world's largest statue.

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