In the early 1970s, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota was a banana republic ruled by a puppet government and policed by death squads.
Mr. Bear Runner Goes to Rushmore
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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