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Thus began a long-standing collaboration and 由此，卡斯特扶輪社與瘋馬紀念基金會之間
friendship between the Custer club and the Crazy 開始了長期的合作與友誼，這種合作與友誼超越
Horse Memorial Foundation, which would grow
beyond the monument to establish a museum and 了紀念碑本身，發展成為一座博物館和一所教育
an educational institution, Crazy Horse Memorial 機構--瘋馬紀念大學，該大學提供多個學術課程
University, that offers college credit in several 的大學學分，並幫助美洲原住民學生，為接受高
academic programs and prepares Native American
students to succeed in higher education. 等教育做好準備。
Whitney Rencountre II is chief executive 惠特尼．倫康特二世是紀念館的現任執行
officer of the memorial today. He is Crow Creek 長，他來自克羅克里克蘇族，是克羅克里克．亨
Hunkpati Dakota from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe.
Because the foundation runs solely on donations and 克帕蒂．達科他族人。由於基金會完全依靠捐款
accepts no government funding, partners like the 運作，不接受任何政府資助，因此像扶輪社這樣
Rotary club are critically important. "As a nonprofit
organization, we rely on collaborations and those 的合作夥伴至關重要。倫康特說﹕「作為一個非
many volunteers through the years to help us 營利組織，我們依靠各方合作以及多年來眾多志
advance the work, our mission, and our dream here," 工的支持，來推進我們的工作、使命和夢想」。
Rencountre says.
The idea for the monument began in the late 這座紀念碑的構想始於1930年代末，由拉科
1930s with Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear, who 塔族酋長亨利．斯坦丁．貝爾提出。當時，他目
watched Mount Rushmore taking shape 10 miles 睹了10英里外黑山地區拉什莫爾山的雛形，希望
away elsewhere in the Black Hills and wanted to
show that his people had great heroes. The man 展現他的族人也擁有偉大的英雄。他選擇紀念的
he chose to honor was his cousin, Tasunke Witko, 是他的堂兄塔桑克．維特科，其名字意為『他的
whose name translates to His Horse Is Wild or Crazy 馬很狂野』或『瘋馬』，這位領袖最著名的戰績
Horse, a leader best known for defeating Lieutenant
Colonel George Custer and the Army's 7th Cavalry 是在小比格霍恩戰役中擊敗了喬治．卡斯特中校
at the Battle of Little Bighorn. 及其率領的美國陸軍第七騎兵團。

＊圖片由瘋馬紀念基金會提供。

Rotary members formed a human chain to 扶輪社成員組成人鏈，搬運建造階梯所需的
move lumber needed for stairs to assist the sculptor. 木材，以協助雕塑家。雕塑家科爾扎克．齊奧爾
Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski talks with Chief Henry
Standing Bear at the monument site. Courtesy of 科夫斯基在紀念碑現場與亨利．斯坦丁．貝爾酋
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. 長交談。

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