A ten-minute trip from Mobridge, six miles west on US-12 and then four miles south on a paved road, will bring you to the Sitting Bull Memorial. This is the final resting place of the great Sioux Indian leader, after his body was disinterred in 1953 from Fort Yates in a surreptitious and still-controversial move. Whatever injustice or disrespect exhuming his body may have incurred, this magnificent view, high atop a palisade hilltop looking southeast over the river, is at least worthier than the previous site. The massive granite bust that serves as Sitting Bull’s tombstone was carved by the late Korczak Ziolkowski, the sculptor who began the quixotic Crazy Horse Mountain carving near Mt. Rushmore.
