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Inside this issue:
Bone Health 6 Health & Wellness
Entertaining the Hills 12 With Theatre Arts & Entertainment
The Mind of a Maker: 16 Dick Termes Nostalgia
13 Things To Make Your Partner 22 Fall In Love All Over Again Relationships
If Only... 26 and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Lifestyle
Boredom Busters in Custer 30 Local Treasurers
Math of the Wild 32Regional Animal Migration
Science & Technology
Crazy Horse Memorial 36 History
Bone Health By Molly Barari
6 Health & Wellness
Bone Health By Molly Barari
As we get older, we may notice that we have more sun spots, laugh lines, and
wisdom to share. We may also notice that we tire more easily when doing
yard work or chasing after grandkids. What we may not notice right away
is that our bones are changing, too.
Since we can’t see our bones, it’s often hard to tell how healthy they are. If you or some-
one you know falls from standing height or less and experiences a fracture you may not
be aware, it’s called a fragility fracture and can be problematic.
Dr. Peg Chilvers, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon at Black Hills Orthopedic & Spine
Center who specializes in the foot and ankle, sees patients with fragility fractures on a
regular basis. “Fragility fractures occur as a result of low bone density,” she explains.
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, fragility fractures most commonly
affect the hip, spine and wrist. Usually, a fragility fracture is the first sign that something
is wrong with the bones. “If I see a patient with a fragility or stress fracture, we will talk
about his or her bone health,” said Dr. Chilvers. “Osteopenia and osteoporosis are both
disorders of bone density, most often related to aging.”
Osteopenia (lower than peak bone density) and osteoporosis (brittle and fragile bones
from loss of tissue) can also occur from certain medications, such as oral steroids. Dr.
Chilvers says when it comes to age-related bone density issues, women are more at risk.
7Health & Wellness
How can people tell if their bones are at risk for frac-
tures? A primary care provider is normally the first
person involved in screening for good bone health.
If a patient is at risk for osteoporosis or osteopenia,
a bone density scan may be ordered.
“If patients are at risk for these disorders, they may
need a bone density scan earlier, but usually a bone
scan is not needed until a minimum of 50 years of
age,” said Dr. Chilvers. “And it doesn’t usually need
to be repeated more often than every five years
unless the doctor is checking for a response from
treatment.”
Benjamin Franklin famously said, “An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Although
he was addressing fire safety, the sentiment rings
true in medicine as well. Prevention is key when
it comes to taking care of your bones. Dr. Chilvers
says weight-bearing exercise, such as walking, is
helpful—and weightlifting has also been shown to
be effective.
“Joining a walking club or a Silver Sneakers type of
organization can be helpful in maintaining good
exercise habits,” said Dr. Chilvers. She also rec-
ommends adding extra Vitamin D3 to the diet, as
Vitamin D3 helps absorb calcium from food. She
usually recommends at least 1,000 IU per day and
even higher if a patient has a blood test indicating a
low level. Be sure to ask your physician for a Vitamin
D test to learn your level.
8 Health & Wellness
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Although age is just a number, good bone
health is easier to maintain when it’s started
earlier in life. Dr. Chilvers advises that patients
try to gain as much bone density as they can
when they’re younger. “Maintaining bone
density is always easier than gaining more
bone mass when we’re older,” she said. “Some
tips: have a good diet with good calcium, get
good exercise, and avoid smoking.”
10 Health & Wellness
At Black Hills Orthopedic & Spine Center, Dr. Chil-
vers sees patients for same-day appointments
and in urgent care situations. “If someone has
an injury, we’re happy to evaluate it and make
recommendations on treatment of the injury—
and potentially, ways of preventing them in the
future.”
Molly Barari is a freelance writer living in Rapid
City. She also teaches creative life writing classes
to older adults. She has a penchant for macaroons,
Alfred Hitchcock films, and taking long walks with
her husband.
11Health & Wellness
Entertaining the Hills with Theatre
12 Arts & Entertainment
Entertaining the Hills with Theatre
In 1946, Warren M. Lee, a theatre profes-
sor from the University of South Dakota, founded our
Black Hills Playhouse (BHP).
He wanted to create high-quality entertainment for people
in the Black Hills region and visitors to the area, and employ-
ment opportunities for artists in South Dakota. Thus started a
great tradition of live entertainment on the BHP stage.
Just like any art form, acting, directing, music, dance, stage
and production work are crafts which must be mastered. Art-
ists learn by studying their craft, getting hired for professional
gigs and getting experience in all kinds of venues.
The Black Hills Playhouse has evolved over the years into a
theatre company made up of a mix of seasoned professionals,
university professors and college students who come to the
Black Hills annually to develop productions. In 2017, company
members came from 23 states and two foreign countries to
work at the BHP.
Auditions are held in January and February and artists are
contracted in March. Over 1,200 people applied for work
at the BHP in 2018 with only 70 hired for the summer.
Designers and directors work in the winter and spring
to prepare for the season.
photo by Colleen Marsh Olson
13Arts & Entertainment
The company works on site for 13
weeks each summer. Company
members live in five dormitories
and eat daily in a dining hall. Shows
are Tuesday through Saturday at
7:30 p.m., with 2:00 matinées on
Wednesday and Sunday. Six Mon-
days in the summer, company
members are off and can
explore the many attrac-
tions in the area.
The pace of life in the
forest is brisk, with production
meetings each day at 8:00, break-
fast at 8:30, rehearsal and produc-
tion work until noon and again after
lunch starting at 1:30. Dinner is at
5:00 pm, call for shows at 6:00 with
curtain at 7:30 pm.
The Black Hills Playhouse is ap-
proximately 40 minutes from
Rapid City and 25 minutes
from Custer, depend-
ing on tourist
traffic and buffalo
on the highway.
Company members
live side-by-side in the
forest with wildlife and learn
to make things work in the remote
location that has poor cell service
and slow internet speeds.
For decades, artists have gathered,
created and performed to the de-
light of audience members, many
of whom return year after year to
experience live theatre in a forest.
photo by Sage Studios
14 Arts & Entertainment
photo by Sage Studios
The 2018 Season
June 8-17 | Tokens of Affection
Rated PG-13
June 22-July 8 | The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee
Rated PG-13
July 13-29 | Oklahoma!
Rated PG
August 3-19 | The Game’s Afoot
Rated PG
For more info
BlackHillsPlayhouse.com
The Mind of a Maker: Dick Termes
16 Arts & Entertainment
In the air above the rolling grasslands of Wyoming, a
helicopter hovered toward the Law Enforcement
Academy—a 7-1/2-foot polycarbonate sphere
tethered to its belly. The pilot skillfully lowered the piece of
art entitled “Order/Disorder” to its permanent location on the
Center’s grounds; a moment representing the culmination of
nearly a year’s work by artist Dick Termes. “Nine months of work
and the helicopter took that up into the air like it was a feather. It
was very scary but I was too busy down below telling him where
to bring the ball, up, down, left and right, that I just put trust in
him. He was very good it turned out,” said the artist.
Dick Termes has always had “a love for the arts, the thought
of exploring the universe’s ideas and to add to our human
experience.” It would seem the perfect formula. It was when Dick
was working on his Masters in Art at the University of Wyoming
that he discovered what would become his life’s work. “I was
By Jenny Van Zanten
Photos by Kevin Ryan,
Eyefrogs Photography
using a grid system to help me
understand how you might expand
the amount of visual space you
could include in your drawings.”
He had achieved success with
four-point perspective, and when
he started playing with a five,
then six-point drawing, “Someone
suggested to me it looked like a
ball,” he explains. “That was what
I needed, to try this system on
a ball. It fit perfect.” The name
“Termesphere” came a few years
later after he left Wyoming.
“They started calling my work
Termespheres so I thought that
sounded good and started using it
myself.”
For the past five decades, Dick has been
researching, designing and painting
Termespheres, creating an international
legacy. He is an acclaimed one-of-a-kind
artist, and Black Hills native, whose global
recognition includes lectures and workshops
in China, with shows and sales in Japan,
France, New York, Australia, Singapore,
and Germany—where he did eight years of
workshops with the Defense Department
Schools. In recognition of his talent, he has
received countless awards.
A visitor first sees a charming dome-shaped
greenhouse, then several more geodesic
buildings of varying size and designation
come into view, six in all: distinct structures
crafted by an original mind. This is the home
18 Arts & Entertainment
of the Termesphere Gallery. Upon entering,
one is instantly immersed in the visual; globes
ranging from 2”- 60” float from the ceiling in
every spellbinding direction. Viewers are drawn
into an arched corridor of a Parisian cathedral,
or a sphere of a coffee shop full of multi-
generational life and the comfort of ritual. “I
really enjoyed the building and also the people
that came there,” Dick shares. “Rarely had I
painted my own world. Most of my work was
famous places around the world. Instead of
painting the famous places, I thought maybe my
art can make this become a famous place.” He
adds playfully, “we shall see about that.” Dick is
easy company, unpretentious and willing to take
the time to share a story about the making of
any dome.
“When I do the Termespheres I imagine I am
inside the sphere, a transparent sphere, and I am
looking out at an environment around me.” Dick
describes his creative process, “I copy that world
I see or imagine onto the inside of the sphere. I
then move to the outside to look at what I was
inside seeing—this is all painted on the outside
of the sphere, however.” He speaks about his
ability to deviate from “the original plan” and
go with the flow of his imaginative thought.
He explains how design in art is like geometry
to math. “I have found both are very closely
related. When I got into studying patterns I
found my love.”
Merging language from more than one discipline
unravels wisdom; in layers, with words not only
applicable to art and his spheres, but easily
transferable to life itself as a metaphor to our
unique individual perspectives, whether it be
flat, or 6-point.
“See if you can find the biker in this one.” Dick’s
assistant, Sue, prompts, “it took me two months
to find it.” After a few hints, Dick points to a
front tire, then to the biker’s profile…
and suddenly there are handlebars
where there had been tree branches
a moment before; the biker is now in
full view. This is typical of the spirited
thought behind each design Dick
imagines, as noted in George Escher’s
apt words in the most meaningful
compliment Dick has received, “... I
enjoyed the sudden discovery of double
interpretations, the switches in space
perception, the hunt for hidden images,
the little concealed jokes. I thought of
your planning for a new sphere, and of
your exciting explorations...”
Behind the gallery, Dick’s dome-
world continues. A worn path takes
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the visitor to a studio; a
Geppetto-like workshop—an
unapologetically cluttered
space alive with ideas in
the making; drop cloths,
putties, paints and
dozens of brushes in
jars. Items, colorful and
stimulating—primarily
circles—hang from the
ceiling, including a huge
plastic bag of red and
green ornaments that Dick,
“will likely use to play with new
designs before transferring to the large
globes.” More raw art materials are affixed to a
wall and stacked and piled unrestrained upon the floor. Most wall
space is covered with newspaper clippings, notes and photos—
manifestations of an unconstrained, gifted mind.
In the early years, Dick sought any spherical surface on which he
could paint. Initially, Termespheres were made from two joined
half domes of a then commercial product called “Tip a Tub”.
Today, he gets his round canvasses directly from the factory
of a lighting fixture manufacturer. Once received, there is a
substantial amount of prep work needed. “The seam never lines
up just right and so I putty, sand and prep with layers of Gesso.”
Depending on the size, a Termesphere can take from 1-1/2 to 9
months to complete.
Suspended from the ceiling is a pulley, part of a stealthy, built-
in system used to hoist the spheres. By design, the studio floor
has an 8’x8’ hole with removable floor joists which allows globes
to enter through the lower level garage doors. This is where
the sphere that now sits at the Law Enforcement Academy in
Douglas, WY was completed—Dick’s largest work to date.
As to future plans, Dick states, “I never know that. I will
work on ideas until mother nature says that is enough.”
CONTACT: termespheres.com
UPCOMING: • A book of mural
compilations
• A possible anniversary
celebration in summer 2018
commemorating 50 years of
Termespheres and 25 years of
the Termesphere Gallery
EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL:• termespheres.com/shop/
• See also: PBS online series
with 21 downloadable drawing
sessions: SDPB.org/Art
“There are so many things in your work
which speak to me…What I so much liked
was the personal link which I felt with your
work and, at times, with yourself. You will
understand that I had often the impres-
sion of seeing the ghost of my father
intent on new adventures. How much he
would have enjoyed seeing your work,
following your mind and your explora-
tions!” George Escher, son of M.C. Escher.
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22 Relationships
probably comes as no surprise that keep-
ing the romance alive in a relationship
requires effort. But often, when women feel their
romantic relationships becoming stagnant, they
blame the man in their life for not being romantic
enough. So, it may be an eye-opener that 44%
of men say it bothers them “a lot” that their
wife or girlfriend isn’t more romantic, according
to a study of 80,000 participants by Chrisanna
Northrup. Like men, women often feel the same,
that their husband or boyfriend isn’t romantic
enough. So why not take the
first big step, and give your
partner the romance they’re
craving? Try out the following
ideas and reap the reward of
your partner falling in love
with you all over again.
Be spontaneous.
Spontaneity and routine are opposites. Routine,
which typically sets in once a relationship is
established, often leads to monotony. When cou-
ples lose spontaneity, life becomes routine and
dull. So practice spontaneity, and do things on a
whim to awaken the feelings you both felt early
on in your relationship.
Write a love note. It doesn’t have to
be lengthy. A simple “I love you” or “I can’t wait
to spend time with you this weekend” placed in
your partner’s lunch box is sure to make their day.
If you’re good with words, write a poem, or if not,
borrow one, and leave it on your spouse’s pillow.
Laugh at your partner’s jokes
and with your spouse. Numerous
studies, including a 2015 study by Laura E. Kurtz
appearing in the Personal Relationships jour-
nal, have found shared laughter brings couples
closer together. So look for opportunities to
share laughter with your partner. Watch sitcoms,
go to the comedy club, hang out with other fun
couples, or just be silly with each
other.
Physical affection.
This is such a simple gesture and
can be done anytime, any place.
Hold hands when you’re watching
TV or out and about. Kiss your
partner on the cheek or walk over
and give a shoulder massage. Walk up from
behind and wrap your arms around your spouse.
There are so many ways to show your affection.
Make your spouse’s favorite
dinner. Go all out and cook their favorite
dinner and dessert – and don’t forget the can-
dles, wine and soft music.
Take your partner on a date.
Make a plan to do something the two of you both
enjoy but haven’t done in a while. Better yet,
plan something special your partner particularly
By Kimberly Blaker
Learn to accept
your partner’s
shortcomings, and
love your spouse
unconditionally.
23Relationships
enjoys that you haven’t been keen to do in the past.
Make the most of it, and let your spouse know how
much you enjoy seeing them happy and just spend-
ing time together.
Pay your spouse a compliment.
Everyone loves a compliment especially from a
significant other. Tell him you love how that blue
shirt brings out his dreamy blue eyes. Compliment
her new haircut. Look for genuine
reasons to compliment, and do it
often.
Initiate sex. If your partner
is the primary initiator of sex, your
initiation will go a long way toward
making your partner fall in love
all over again. Both men and women need to feel
desired. So make it a practice to come on to your
spouse more often.
Give a gift. Men don’t place as much impor-
tance on receiving gifts as women do. Still, it can be
a very romantic and meaningful gesture for either
gender when done out of the blue. Look for some-
thing your spouse will love such as tickets to a game
or something useful for a favorite hobby or sporting
activity.
Show unconditional love. Many
people, particularly women, fall for and marry some-
one with the idea they can “fix him or her.” Learn to
accept your partner’s shortcomings and love your
spouse unconditionally.
Spoon with your partner. Cuddle with
each other before you fall asleep and when you wake
up. It’ll make you both happier and improve your
relationship because it releases
endorphins, particularly oxytocin,
the love hormone.
Tell your spouse you
love them in a deep
and meaningful way.
During a romantic moment, whis-
per “You’re my soul mate,” “I want to be with you
forever,” “You make my life whole,” or whatever it is
you honestly feel for your partner.
Give a massage. Both men and women enjoy
getting pampered. Give a foot or back massage, or
have your spouse strip down for a full body treat-
ment. Massage is also another way to increase oxyto-
cin and improve the romance in your relationship.
Walk up from behind
and wrap your arms
around your spouse.
The Normal BaR
Where Does Your
Relationship Fall?
Chrisanna Northrup,
Pepper Schwartz,
James Witte
Rekindling the
Romance
Loving the Love of
Your Life
Dennis Rainey,
Barbara Rainey
Mars and Venus
in the Bedroom
A Guide to Lasting
Romance and Passion
John Gray
Courtship After
Marriage
Romance Can Last
a Lifetime
Zig Ziglar
Books on keeping the romance alive
24 Relationships
IF ONLY...and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
by Dorothy Rosby
26 Lifestyle
Dear older, but not necessarily wiser Me,
Knock it off! I know what you’re doing right now. You’re looking back and thinking,
“What have you done with your life? You should have saved more for retirement,
learned another language, worn more sunscreen, eaten more vegetables, worked
harder, played harder. You could have been a better mother, wife, friend, writer,
employee, neighbor, citizen. You could have been a contender!
Let me remind you, that I, your younger, very busy
self, am writing this letter late at night because
there’s precious little time to do such things
during the day. My (and your) son is asleep and
so is his grandmother, who you’ll recall, lives
with us. To put it simply, the reason I didn’t
do whatever the something is you think I
should have done is because I’ve been doing
something else. Actually, lots of something elses, and
not a one of them involves lounging on the sofa, eating Twinkies
and watching the Gilmore Girls.
I’m a little busy. I am the co-provider for this family as well as the driver, homework
helper, chef, housekeeper, social organizer, boo-boo kisser, cheerleader, nurse’s
aide and everything else a mother and caregiver is. Do you really think I have time
to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and write a doctoral thesis too?
We’ve all got our talents, and mine is hindsight. Some people
predict the future, but I gaze into the past to determine
how the present would be different if only I had done this and not done that. As it
turns out, in every case, it would be better. I’m just that good at hindsight.
As the years go by, I spend more and more time practicing my skill. Lucky for me, I
once wrote my someday self a letter on this very subject. In the unlikely event that
you’re like me, I’m sharing a version of that letter with you.
I’m a little busy...
27Lifestyle
And another thing: Any brilliant ideas you
have are only coming to you now because
you have more time to think than I do.
Plus, you have the benefit of wisdom you
wouldn’t have if I were not trudging along
before you, fouling things up and learning
a lesson here and there because of it. It’s
true what they say about objects in a
rear-view mirror. They’re harder than they
appear. Maybe that’s not quite what they
say, but they should.
Always remember, regret is an assumption
and like the old saying goes, “assume”
makes an…well…a donkey out of u and
me. You’re assuming that a different path
would have been a perfect path. But
there is no guarantee of that. That grass
probably only looks greener because you
never got close enough to mow it.
Anyway, it’s all a big waste of time—time
you could be spending doing some of
the many things I don’t have the time
to do now. How about this: Look back
on what I did right. Show me a little
appreciation, then get off your donkey and
do something.
Sincerely,
Your Younger, Very Tired Self
Dorothy Rosby talks to herself, too.
You could have been a better
mother, wife, friend, writer,
employee, neighbor, citizen. You
could have been a contender!
28 Lifestyle
Boredom Bustersin Custer
If you are considering where to go for this year’s summer vacation without going too far, take a stayca-
tion to Custer.
From horseback riding trails, to scenic byways, to water activities in Custer State Park or delicious din-
ing, Custer has abundant adventures for you to enjoy. Here are a few recommendations:
May 3
Korczack Day Crazy Horse Memorial
Learn more at
crazyhorsememorial.org
May 18
Custer State Park Open House & Free Fishing
gfp.sd.gov/parks/detail/custer-state-
park/
Starting May 4
Black Hills Community Theatre View the performance schedule at
bhct.org
June 2
National Trails Day Prairie Trail Hike
gfp.sd.gov/events/detail/134/
30 Local Treasures
June 8-10 Custer Off-Road Rally
visitcuster.com/Off-Road-Rally
July 3-4 Old Time Country
Fourth of July visitcuster.com/Old-Time-Country-
Fourth-of-July
July 20-22 Gold Discovery Days
Hot air balloon festival, parade, arts
& crafts festival, car show, bed races,
stick horse rodeo, bouncy houses for
the grandkids...
visitcuster.com/Gold-Discovery-Days
June 2-3 Volksmarch at Crazy Horse
crazyhorsememorial.org
31Local Treasures
Algorithms of Animal DispersalBy Mike Ray
32 Science & Technology
Around the summer of 2003 in the La Sal Moun-
tains of Utah, mule deer began to turn into zom-
bies. Or, at least they began to act like zombies.
They started losing weight, salivated constantly and
began to walk in listless circles. They grew apathetic and
then stopped running from humans.
At first, only a few sick animals turned up in annual sur-
veys of harvested deer, but the numbers grew. Testing
confirmed the fears of wildlife managers, Chronic Wasting
Disease (CWD). The prion disease produces lesions in the
brain that change the animals’ behavior. “We call them
zombie deer,” says Martha Garlick, Ph.D., SD School of
Mines math professor.
CWD shows no symptoms at first. It progresses over the
course of a few years, but once contracted it’s always fa-
tal. CWD is highly contagious and it has ravaged deer and
elk populations across the American West. Understanding
the rate of spread is crucial to stopping any disease.
This is where Garlick’s work comes in. She is teamed up
with wildlife biologists, mathematicians and statisticians
at Utah State University and Colorado State University.
The team is part of a National Science Foundation grant
to improve computer models that can help predict how
animal populations move.
“It’s really cool to
actually apply [Math] to
something real-world”
33Science & Technology
“I love math anyway, but, it’s really cool to actually apply this
to something real world. It’s exciting to predict things about
animal movement that will help wildlife managers who care
for these populations.”
Garlick loves to hike and spend time outdoors but doesn’t
spend her days chasing deer and elk in the field, rather she
relies on the rich data sets accumulated from GPS collars
that have been fitted to wild animals, over the years.
She uses GPS tracking records, combined with landscape
images to build models of how animals travel across various
landscapes. Deer, for example, move at different rates on
rocky slopes than in thick trees, open grasslands, or mazes
of cedar brush. Researchers use the animal movement data
to assign a number to different landscapes. Animals tend
to take the easiest path to resources, like green grass and
water, and they are often confined by barriers like a fence,
a mountain snow line or a major river. There are many
variables to consider when building the algorithms that
can accurately model something so complex. For example,
male deer move in different patterns than females, so they
require some slightly different math.
One of Garlick’s favorite parts of the job is seeing students
get involved in this research. “It’s fun to get undergraduates
excited about this work,” she
says. “In math modeling, it’s
sometimes difficult to actu-
ally make it fit. You try and
keep it simple, but putting in
the details so that it mirrors
what’s really going on, this is
an exciting challenge.”
The models Garlick is developing not only have applications
for tracking deer and elk in the mountain west but can also
be used to predict the movement of harbor seals in Alaska,
or the spread of the wolf populations introduced into places
like Yellowstone National Park. As the research continues
and the models inch closer to predicting reality, the re-
al-world applications of this work will continue to grow.
“It’s Fun to get
undergraduates excited
about this work”
34 Science & Technology
Crazy Horse Memorial by Kayla
Gahagan photos courtesy of Crazy Horse Memorial
36 History
Crazy Horse Memorial
“That’s the whole purpose of Crazy
Horse,” said Jadwiga (Viga) Ziolkowski,
one of Ruth and Korczak Ziolkowski’s
children and a member of the memo-
rial’s foundation board of directors.
“That’s what we learned from mom
and dad. We want people to be able to
come and get educated. The mountain
carving will bring people and the Na-
tive American heritage and culture will
be preserved.”
Crazy Horse Memorial was never actually about the
monument. It was about education.
37History
Since its first blast in June of 1948, Crazy
Horse has become known as the world’s larg-
est mountain carving in progress, drawing
more than one million visitors per year. The
final vision is a 641-foot long, 563-foot high
monument of Lakota leader Crazy Horse – a
tribute first envisioned by Lakota Chief Henry
Standing Bear as he sought a way to honor
the strength, culture, and traditions of the
Lakota and native tribes across the country.
Standing Bear enlisted the help of sculptor
Korczak Ziolkowski and the legacy began.
As the image emerges more from the moun-
tain more each year – the hand and forearm,
right shoulder and hairline will all be finished
during the next ten years – the work at the
base of the mountain also continues with
a growing museum, university and visitor
center.
“People have been very gracious,” Viga said,
and the work has accelerated in recent years,
championed by generations of the Ziolkowski
family. Korczak Ziolkowski married Ruth Ross
in 1950 and they had 10 children. Several of
the children and grandchildren still work on
the project.
“I’m very proud of being involved and telling
the story,” she said. “We can do this. Working
together, we can. That’s something mom and
dad taught us. Even if the trail is long and
there are cloudy skies, you find that silver
lining and keep moving ahead.”
“It’s an extensive process. You have to
know what you’re doing.”
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The memorial receives no state or federal fund-
ing and operates solely on gifts and admission.
The memorial received a $20 million matching
grant from T. Denny Sanford in 2013, enabling
them to purchase new equipment to work
more efficiently.
A crew of 13 work on the monument year-
round, with an additional crew coming on
during the summer. The workers are profes-
sional and talented, and undergo an in-depth
hiring process. “It’s an extensive process,” Viga
said. “You have to know what you’re doing.”
Because the recent work is detailed, the work-
ers make progress by chipping away at the
mountain by hand.
“There’s no blasting,” she said. “It’s how the
face was done. We’re doing it in stages. The
rock is a piece of a living thing.”
It’s not the only place where intentional, hard
work is taking place, she added. Through the
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, the Indi-
an Museum of North America and the Native
American Educational & Cultural Center were
created. Both museums feature Native Amer-
ican art and artifacts from tribes across the
continent.
The foundation hired a curator last spring and
is currently in the process of recording and
cataloging every piece in the collection and its
history. They are also working to get the mu-
seum accredited, which will help cement the
monument’s historical and cultural significance.
It’s all in step with the original dream to help
people learn and according to Viga, one of the
reasons the foundation opened a college at
the memorial in 2010. Currently, 32 freshmen
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February 2018
are enrolled in the Indian University of North
America. The summer program is a partnership
with the University of South Dakota in which
students complete a semester of college and a
paid internship at the memorial. They leave with
12 transferable college credits including English,
history, math, psychology and life management.
“The students are following in the footsteps of
the founders of the memorial. Standing Bear and
her parents believed you had to take chances to
learn and truly grow,” Viga said.
“You have to step out of your bounds,” she said.
“This is a special place.”
Viga lives on site but said she never takes for
granted the view of the monument, the beauty
of the land or the energy emanating from so
many visitors.
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Korczak Ziolkowski & Ruth Ross
“The best is when you can see and hear the equip-
ment, which is typically early in the morning because of
weather,” she said. “It’s exciting as all get out. It helps
me understand how Dad and Standing Bear and Mom
accomplished what they did.”
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