President Trump’s plan to kick off July 4th with a showy display at Mount Rushmore is drawing sharp criticism from Native Americans.
CRAZY HORSE, S.D. – It had been nearly 40 years since I’d visited the Black Hills of South Dakota, a 5,000-square-mile mountain range rising in the middle of the Great Plains.
The monument often starts conversations on the paradox of American democracy — that a republic that promoted the ideals of freedom, determination and innovation also enslaved people and drove others from their land, he said. “If we’re having this discussion today about what American democracy is, Mount Rushmore is really serving its purpose because that conversation goes on there,” he said. “Is it fragile? Is it permanent? Is it cracking somewhat?”
The monument was conceived in the 1920s as a tourist draw for the new fad in vacationing called the road trip. South Dakota historian Doane Robinson recruited Borglum, one of the preeminent sculptors at the time, to abandon his work creating the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia, which was toBorglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, according to Mount Rushmore historian and writer Tom Griffith.
Quanah Brightman, who now runs United Native Americans, said the activism in the 1970s grew out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He hopes a similar movement for Native Americans comes from the Black Lives Matter movement.“What people find here is the story of America — it’s multi-dimensional, it’s complex,” Griffith said. “It’s important to understand it was people just trying to do right as best they knew it then.
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