Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Jul 8, 2023

Here’s why we need to start with #MountRushmore.

The Story of #TunkasilaSakpe

When Indigenous leaders blocked the road to Mount Rushmore before an Independence Day celebration in 2020, it highlighted a #conflict that most #Americans probably know little about.

Long before #SouthDakota had become a state, long before the faces of four American #presidents were blasted into the side of Mount Rushmore,

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The US Was Founded on Stolen Indigenous Land—This July 4, Let’s Commit to Returning It

Mount Rushmore, like so much of the land now known as the United States, once belonged to Indigenous people. In fact, it’s a holy mountain to the Lakota. Here’s why we need to give it back.

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