http://tpr.org en http://tpr.org/post/slow-carving-crazy-horse-monument South Dakota is famously home to Mount Rushmore, but it's also been making room for a second colossal mountain carving that, when finished, will dwarf the four presidents.<p>The sculpture in progress is of the Lakota warrior Chief Crazy Horse astride a stallion with his arm and pointed hand stretched out over the horse's mane. It's taking awhile. The <a href="http://crazyhorsememorial.org/">Crazy Horse Memorial</a> — taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide — has been 64 years in the making. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:12:00 +0000 Charles Michael Ray 4106 at http://tpr.org The Slow Carving Of The Crazy Horse Monument http://tpr.org/post/native-americans-soon-receive-settlement-checks Federal officials are working to send out $1,000 checks in the next few weeks to hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. The money stems from a settlement of the Cobell case, a landmark $3.4 billion settlement over mismanagement of federal lands held in trust for Native American people.<p>The case was brought by Elouise Cobell, a member of Montana's Blackfeet Tribe, and four other Native Americans in 1996.<p>On South Dakota's Native American reservations, reactions are mixed. Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:04:00 +0000 Charles Michael Ray 2583 at http://tpr.org Native Americans To Soon Receive Settlement Checks