Leonard Peltier is a treaty defender. Distinguished legal scholar Charles Wilkinson explains the significance of domestic treaties with Indian Nations within the context of the Oglala Incident
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To commemorate July 4, 2020, President Trump is traveling to the Black Hills of South Dakota to give a speech in front of Mount Rushmore. But for the Lakota, the Black Hills are sacred. And the carvings of the four Presidents represent a desecration of their history and culture. As Edgar Bear Runner, a Lakota tribal historian, puts it: “Mount Rushmore is a shrine to racism. A shrine to genocide.”
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