You miss the point again. The identity of the Sioux and other Plains tribe people was assaulted by the US when we defaced those beautiful granite mountains. The US has been both culturally appropriating and erasing native American culture for our entire history. What they call sacred is not like Christianity. They mean a link to who they are. A link between the past and the present of first people. It's about history, lineage, culture, heritage that the white man has attempted to erase. All I'm saying is that we did great harm to those people in many ways and its about time we recognize that and not just sweep it under the carpet. I don't understand why you get your dander up about this.
Because you just blew your top without trying to understand what the Sioux were saying, I did it for you:
The national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year – and Native Americans want the site back with a focus on oppression
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The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’
Mount Rushmore national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year to its remote location in South Dakota. They travel from all corners of the globe just to lay their eyes on what the National Park Service calls America’s “shrine of democracy”.
Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression.
“It should be turned into something like the United States Holocaust Museum,” he said. “The world needs to know what was done to us.”
Two Eagle noted what historians have also documented. Hitler got some of his genocidal ideas for ethnic cleansing from 19th and early 20th century US policies against Native Americans.
Mount Rushmore national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year to its remote location in South Dakota. They travel from all corners of the globe just to lay their eyes on what the National Park Service calls America’s “shrine of democracy”.
Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression.
“It should be turned into something like the United States Holocaust Museum,” he said. “The world needs to know what was done to us.”
Two Eagle noted what historians have also documented. Hitler got some of his genocidal ideas for ethnic cleansing from 19th and early 20th century US policies against Native Americans.
He's not wrong. Those carvings on the face of Mt Rushmore is part of an American holocaust. That's a story that deserves to be told and remembered. But you aren't wrong either. The tribes who own that land want it returned. Not a payment but to have the land returned to them.
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