The Spirit of Crazy Horse Award Recipients

The sculptor, Korczak Ziolkowski, came to the Black Hills of South Dakota at the request of Native Americans to create a mountain memorial that would honor the spirit of Crazy Horse. In 1949, Korczak wrote these words about Crazy Horse:

“Crazy Horse was a great leader of his people. He wanted only peace and a way of living for his people without having to live on the white man’s reservations. Crazy Horse defended his people and their way of life in the only manner he knew, but only after he saw the treaty of 1868 broken. This treaty, signed by the President of the United States said, ‘Paha Sapa, the Black Hills, will forever and ever be the sacred land of the Indians’. Crazy Horse’s tenacity of purpose, his modest life, his unfailing courage, his tragic death set him apart and above the others.”Reclaiming Youth International presents The Spirit of Crazy Horse Award to honor those who have a tenacity of purpose in creating courage for discouraged children and youth through their practice, policy development, or research.

Beginning in 1994, The Spirit of Crazy Horse Award has been given to the following individuals whose distinguished contributions have helped reclaim our most vulnerable children:

*Jerry Adams, Executive Director, Urban Native Youth Association, Vancouver, British Columbia
*Muhammad Ali, Humanitarian & World Heavyweight Champion, Berrien Springs, Michigan
*Bonnie Benard, Founder, Resiliency Associates, Berkley, California
*Peter Benson, President, The Search Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
*Marita Bergsson, Director, Jakob Muth School, Essen, Germany
*Mary Beth Blegen, National Teacher of the Year, Worthington, Minnesota
*Larry Brendtro, Founder, Reclaiming Youth International, Nemo, South Dakota
*Waln Brown, Founder, The William Gladden Foundation, York, Pennsylvania
*Jack Calhoun, Founder, National Crime Prevention Council, Washington, DC
*Duncan Campbell, Founder, Friends of the Children, Portland, Oregon
*Richard Curwin, Co-Founder, Discipline with Dignity, San Francisco, California
*Virginia Driving Hawk-Sneve, Children’s author, Rapid City, South Dakota
*Lesley du Toit, Founder, Child and Youth Care Agency for Development, Pretoria, South Africa
*Frank Fecser, Executive Director, Positive Education Program, Cleveland, Ohio
*Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Minister for Public Service and Administration, Cape Town, South Africa
*Thomas Garfat, Youth Consultant/Co-Founder, CYC-Net, Rosemere, Quebec
*Lil Garfinkel, Youth Advocate, PACER, Minneapolis, Minnesota
*Arnold Goldstein, Founder, Center for Research on Aggression, Syracuse, New York
*Judge Ernestine Gray, National Juvenile & Family Court Judges Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
*Mark Greenberg, Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University
*Eleanor Guetzloe, Professor, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida
*Mariano Guzmán, Deputy to the Superintendent of Region 9, New York City, New York
*McClellan Hall, Founder, National Indian Youth Leadership Program, Gallup, New Mexico
*Margaret Harrison, Founder, Homestart International, London, England
*Kris Juul, Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
*Azim Khamisa, Founder of CANEI and Tariq Khamisa Foundation, La Jolla, California
*Jack Kirkland, Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
*Cathann Kress, Director of Youth Development, National 4-H Office, Washington, DC
*Linda Lantieri, Founder, Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, New York, New York
*Scott Larson, Founder, Straight Ahead Ministries, Westboro, Massachusetts
*Zvi Levi, Founder, Haddisam Youth Village, Haddisam, Israel
*Harry Leibowitz, Founder, The World of Children Awards, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
*Larry Long, American Troubadour, Minneapolis, Minnesota
*Nicholas Long, Founder, Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute, Washington, DC
*The Honorable George McGovern,Former United Nations Ambassador, Rome, Italy
*Allen Mendler, Co-founder, Discipline Associates, Rochester, New York
*Paul Mones, Attorney and author, Portland, Oregon
*Arlin Ness, President Emeritus, Starr Commonwealth, Albion, Michigan
*Gordon Neufeld, Psychologist/Consultant, Vancouver, British Columbia
*Dan Olweus, Professor, University of Bergen, Norway
*The Honorable Landon Pearson, Canada’s Senator for Children and Youth, Ottawa, Canada
*Joe Padilla, Deputy, Office of Athletics and Youth Development, National Guard Bureau, Arlington, Virginia
*Bruce Perry, Senior Fellow, Child Trauma Academy, Houston, Texas
*Father Val Peter, Director, Father Flanagan Girls and Boys Town, Omaha, Nebraska
*Phil Quinn, Founder, ICARE, Hermitage, Tennessee
*The Honorable Janet Reno, Former United States Attorney General, Washington, DC
*Warren Rhodes, Professor, Morgan State University, Dover, Delaware
*Father Chris Riley, Founder, Youth Off The Streets, Sydney, Australia
*Nathan Rustein, Founder, The Institute for Healing Racism, Amherst, Massachusetts
*Keith Spencer, Superintendent of Schools, Nisga’a, British Columbia
*Joe Stewart, Trustee, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan
*Carl Taylor, Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
*William Treanor, Founder, Youth Today, Washington, DC
*Fred Tully, Founder, Black Hills Children’s Home, Rapid City, South Dakota
*Tobias Wolff, Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California
*Mary Wood, Founder, Developmental Therapy Institute, Athens, Georgia
*Peter Yarrow, “Peter Paul and Mary” New York, New York