the lakota sioux indians who once owned all of this, asked him to carve a likeness of crazy horse. who refused to sign away sioux lands. >> why did he wanted it? >> because it was so big, we started out with absolutely flog and we had to make everything owrsourselves. >> her husband died in 1982 at the age of 74 when the carving had barely begun to take shape. >> when your husband died did he think that his dream was going to die with him? >> no. i don't think he did. he had made the statement that if the mountain stopped when he died, his whole life would have been wasted. >> so ruth and their ten children decided to forge ahead. six of them still work on the mountain. daughter jadviga is the fourth oldest. >> he wanted us to have a commitment just like he did. >> was obsessed with this project? >> yes. did he teach us to be? yes. downtown. if you lay down the feeling then you have to find something else to do. >> her younger sister monique wears the hard hat in the family. supervising the actual carving of the mountain. as a young woman she learned to scale the mountain from her f

indians hold together, you have enough to fight. this was the expectation the army had. what won the war with the sioux afterwards was just persistent dogged pursuit because the lakotas and cheyennes had to disperse to behind to sustain themselves. why lee could not sustain himself in the invasions of the north. his troops had to spread tout out to gather supplies. lee would have had to retreat. it would have been demoralizing hat the ewan not won but constant pressure brought the plains indians down in the en. wasn't big battlefield successes. and so it was just deploying the troops and keeping them out in the field is the way they won. you have to really go to the apache wars to find innovative thinking when its came to indian warfare and that's a really interesting story. it's all interesting because you have a few individuals in a vast landscape, many whom knew each other, one degree of separation apart. it's just an incredibly dramatic story, and the fates of nations are in play. so, it's always good history, even if we sometimes can't stand some of the people involved. yes, sir. >> appropriate for you. just a military -- your pin. if reno had charged the indian cam