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Eight Faces of Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore was built to foster national pride and tell future civilizations how America was built.
That is not what Indigenous people see. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 granted the Black Hills exclusively to the Lakota Nation. To Native people, the monument is a symbol of broken promises.
Imagine two children standing side by side looking at the four carved faces.
The white child sees George Washington as a heroic general. The Lakota child sees a commander who destroyed Native villages and put bounties on Indigenous lives.
The white child sees Thomas Jefferson as the author who wrote…
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