Spirit of Crazy Horse Award

Larry Long received the "Spirit of Crazy Horse Award" from Reclaiming Youth International on June 29, 2002 at the Crazy Horse Memorial Mountain in the Black Hills (Paha Sapa) of South Dakota.

Larry's Crazy Horse Award acceptance speech:

Land of the prong horn and buffalo
Land of Lakota, the Great Spirit roams
Land of beauty, peace, and good will
Land of the people, these Sacred Black Hills

Land of our mother, giver of life
Land of our fathers, heavenly flight
Land of our children, for them we build
This camp in the valley of the Sacred Black Hills

Land of our elders' ancestral home
Land which is sacred, can never be sold
Land to defend with my life and I will
Rise like the thunder to defend the Black Hills

Land of cedar, aspen, and pine
Land of the eagle flying on high
Land of the pipe, medicine wheel
There's a new day rising in the Sacred Black Hills

—Sacred Black Hills, Larry Long

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