The fight over the black hills / pine ridge is still very much an ongoing legal battle, with the US under Obama offering a bribe of 1.3 billion USD.
The Sioux have staunchly and admirably refused, and made it clear they will only accept the return of this stolen land. This in spite of all the manufactured poverty the US forces native peoples to endure.
Mount rushmore highlights a lot of hypocrisies of the US. They stole this land, defaced this sacred grandfathers monument and put their own colonizer heroes on top, and then have the audacity to criticize other countries over “hero worship”.
The fight over the black hills / pine ridge is still very much an ongoing legal battle, with the US under Obama offering a bribe of 1.3 billion USD.
The Sioux have staunchly and admirably refused, and made it clear they will only accept the return of this stolen land. This in spite of all the manufactured poverty the US forces native peoples to endure.
Mount rushmore highlights a lot of hypocrisies of the US. They stole this land, defaced this sacred grandfathers monument and put their own colonizer heroes on top, and then have the audacity to criticize other countries over “hero worship”.