Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOct 31
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1941, the #MountRushmore monument was completed (more or less). It permanently defaced the #SixGrandfathers mountain, a sacred site for the #Lakota. Its designer, #GutzonBorglum, was a #KKK member who also designed the #StoneMountain #Confederate monument.
Silver ArrowsApr 20, 2025

@JorisBohnsonPM tangential, but relevant.

"Long before four of the largest faces on Earth were dynamited into the granite edifice of Mount Rushmore, the #Lakota #Sioux saw a different set of portraits: The mountain was known as Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe (the Six Grandfathers)."

#indigenousamericans #whitewashinghistory #mountrushmore #ushistory #sixgrandfathers

Show threadI Voted for McGovernDec 7, 2024
So there you have it, and as a granpa myself, it kinda takes my breath away, the disrespect of carving up a native people's mountain, named Six Grandfathers and replace that with a white-washed granite caricature of two men who depended on slaves for their very livelihood, one man who vaunted white supremacism and Abe Lincoln who ceded the west to whites. Sad stuff for heroes on a mountain, smdh
#FreeLeonardPeltier
#BlackHills
#SixGrandfathers
#mountrushmore
Church of JeffSep 26, 2024

Look at how stupid this looks. Look at it!!

#MountRushmore #indigenous #SixGrandfathers

Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Jul 8, 2023

that mountain was known as Tunkasila Sakpe, the #SixGrandfathers, to the #LakotaSioux—a holy mountain that rises up from the #BlackHills, land they consider sacred.

“The Heart of Everything that Is”

The Black Hills are known to the Lakota as “the heart of everything that is.”

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KatiameFeb 18, 2023

Mount Rushmore is on stolen land. Return the Black Hills to the #Lakota. Sign our petition today #LandBack2020

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/land-back?ms=tw_share&snw=2&ref=1cf7d057-1284-417a-b4f2-30768b327ceb

#LakotaLaw
#BlackHills
#SixGrandfathers
#Native
#NativeAlly
#Indigenous
#IndigenousAlly

Return Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills to the Lakota!

We call on the federal government to right historical wrongs, and to move our society forward. The United States must return what its own judges admit it has stolen. Return the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation. Now is the time.