Truth is, this country was built on a path of injustice on stolen land and broken promises. The facts fill volumes and volumes of books that are barely read and rarely referenced. It is sad and true. This is not to say we couldn't make it work toward a future of shared vision using the collective wisdom of our ancestors, one that includes true histories. Those are hard to find. Following is the inscription written for the Crazy Horse memorial:

All my relations.

http://www.crazyhorse.org/crazy.htm

To be carved on the mountain in letters three feet high:

 

WHEN THE COURSE OF HISTORY HAS BEEN TOLD

LET THESE TRUTHS HERE CARVED BE KNOWN:

CONSCIENCE DICTATES CIVILIZATIONS LIVE

AND DUTY OURS TO PLACE BEFORE THE WORLD,

A CHRONICLE WHICH WILL LONG ENDURE.

FOR LIKE ALL THINGS UNDER US AND BEYOND

INEVITABLY WE MUST PASS INTO OBLIVION.

THIS LAND OF REFUGE TO THE STRANGER

WAS OURS FOR COUNTLESS EONS BEFORE:

CIVILIZATIONS MAJESTIC AND MIGHTY.

OUR GIFTS WERE MANY WHICH WE SHARED

AND GRATITUDE FOR THEM WAS KNOWN.

BUT LATER, GIVEN MY OPPRESSED ONES

WERE MURDER, RAPE AND SANGUINE WAR.

LOOKING EAST FROM WHENCE INVADERS CAME,

GREEDY USURPERS OF OUR HERITAGE.

FOR US THE PAST IS IN OUR HEARTS,

THE FUTURE NEVER TO BE FULFILLED.

TO YOU I GIVE THIS GRANITE EPIC

FOR YOUR DESCENDANTS TO ALWAYS KNOW--

"MY LANDS ARE WHERE MY DEAD LIE BURIED."

Korczak Ziolkowski, Sculptor

Crazy Horse Memorial, Black Hills, S. D.