Posted on 06/25/2020 5:16:18 PM PDT by KC_Lion
Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner is protesting President Donald Trumps planned visit to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota next week, saying the monument should be removed because it is on land claimed by Native Americans.
The Argus Leader reported Thursday that many though not all local Sioux want the monument removed, seeing the faces of four white leaders as an affront including Abraham Lincoln, who was president when U.S. soldiers executed Indians.
Several groups are planning to protest Trumps visit, and Bear Runner has written a memorandum to Trump opposing his visit.
Trump is planning to visit as a show of support for national monuments as left-wing activists affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement have torn down and destroyed them in recent weeks, including statues of abolitionists.
The Argus Leader elaborates:
Mount Rushmore was created to draw tourism to South Dakota and its carving took place between 1927 and 1941. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum intended for Mount Rushmore to stand for Americas greatness, and its referred to as the Shrine of Democracy. However, stories in recent years have highlighted Borglums ties to white supremacy, possibly joining the Ku Klux Klan, his Confederate sculpture funded by the KKK and that the tribes have argued for generations that the land was stolen from them.
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Kinda funny, that tearing down monuments and statues weren’t a priority under the Obama, Clinton, and Carter administrations. Almost as if certain people waited until an evil Republican won back the WH so they can pull this crap.
Someone should tell them that the Sioux originally lived in Minnesota and Wisconsin. When they got horses from white settlers, they moved into the Dakotas where they subsequently drove out the local tribes, such as the Cheyenne.
Given the sentiments at the time, Lincoln could have easily have authorized a genocidal war against all the Lakota tribes, but instead sought to punish only those directly involved in the killings and rapes. Lincoln acted with fairness and under the rule of law and should be given credit for that.
Trump should reschedule for the first week of August to coincide with the Sturgis celebration!
Everyone was shocked by what the Taliban did to cultural sites in Afghanistan and now the American Taliban is doing the same thing here. WAKE UP AMERICA.
I sure am glad I got to see the great places in this country before they.were erased
DEMOCRATS HATE BEAUTY of every kind. THEY RUIN EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH!!
If my history is correct, the Sioux tribe was kicked out of the Northeast by other tribes and emigrated to the SD region.
Remind me to use you as my “lifeline” when I get on Millionaire. lol
"Ancestral Sioux The ancestral Sioux most likely lived in the Central Mississippi Valley region and later in Minnesota, for at least two or three thousand years. The ancestors of the Sioux arrived in the northwoods of central Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin from the Central Mississippi River shortly before 800 AD.
What I was referring to is the Origin Myth they have subscribed to in their religion as it was taught to me by an anthropology Professor at South Dakota State University, low many years ago.
Speaking of cultural sites. The twin towers could certainly be classified as such.
...and the first attack to attempt their destruction was what 1993.
They were destroyed by radical Islam in 2001.
How do we even start a discussion on “WAKE UP AMERICA”.
Especially for those nineteen and under.
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