The Cultural Center provides opportunity
to get to know Native American artists
and craftspeople

The hands-on display is intended for
children visiting Crazy Horse Memorial

During a typical season, as many as three dozen artists work and exhibit. In addition to South Dakota tribes, artists have represented the Navajo (Diné in the Navajo language), Cherokee, Santee, Choctaw/Chickasaw, Tohono O’Odham, Seneca, and Hopi nations, among others. Space is provided to the artists by Crazy Horse Memorial at no charge.

The Native American Cultural Center is the home of a “hands-on” exhibit created especially for children. The exhibit provides the opportunity to stone-grind corn and handle replicas of artifacts.

The Curtis prints line the lower level of the
Cultural Center. One wall of the lower level
is a natural quartz ridge. Other walls are
made of rock from the Crazy Horse
mountain carving

During the summer season, some Native
American artists set up their tables outside
the Cultural Center, near the handicapped
access ramp

One wall of the lower level of the Cultural Center is a natural quartz ridge. The lower level is used for lectures and presentations and houses a display of a large collection of Edward Curtis photographs of Native Americans, taken around the end of the 19th century.

As part of the Indian Museum of North America, the Cultural Center building is also the home of many museum exhibits.