The creation of Mount Rushmore ... faces of Rushmore, in 1939 Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear invited sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who worked briefly at Rushmore, to carve a memorial to the ...

October 1: Rushmore is dedicated. June 6: The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission ... because of the dangerous working conditions. Korczak Ziolkowski is hired as an assistant, but works ...

When I explained to the dozen men and women there—mostly Lakota, but also Ponca and Northern Cheyenne—that I was writing about the Mount Rushmore memorial, they laughed, then turned angry.