The battle for Mount Rushmore: 'It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum'

[turbinetree]

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The national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year – and Native Americans want the site back with a focus on oppression

Annette McGivney
Sat 3 Jul 2021 05.15 EDT

Mount Rushmore national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year to its remote location in South Dakota. They travel from all corners of the globe just to lay their eyes on what the National Park Service calls America’s “shrine of democracy”.

Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression.

“It should be turned into something like the United States Holocaust Museum,” he said. “The world needs to know what was done to us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/03/mount-rushmore-south-dakota-indigenous-americans

[Deuxcents]

1. Hmmmmm

I’m not opposed to this but wanna know more. It is time for us to recognize our history.. ALL of it. The good, bad n ugly pain of our history. I almost want to say.. we would be stronger for it.

[niyad]

2. Have you read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz "An Indigenous People's History of the United States"?

[turbinetree]

4. That book should be mandatory reading...for history lessons...

Wado .....

[niyad]

8. Absolutely agree!

[Deuxcents]

9. I have not read it

But I will. Ty

[niyad]

10. You are most welcome.

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. Shhhhhhhhhhh

That's CRT and you'll make white Republicans uncomfortable.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[JoeOtterbein]

6. Thanks for posting this important article...

...it took awhile for me to finish. But it was very well worth it!

[turbinetree]

7. Wado......thank you

[niyad]

11. Thank you for posting on this most important topic. The whole article was well worth

the read.

[turbinetree]

12. Wado......thank you

[gulliver]

13. The faces should be reverted to a natural looking mountainside

We can remember presidents with pictures on walls in museums. We don't need to ruin a mountainside that is more beautiful than any carving. We don't need to ruin a mountainside for any reason.

[crickets]

14. Excellent article and a fine idea. Thanks for posting it, turbinetree. nt

[turbinetree]

15. Wado........thank you

[DemocraticPatriot]

16. bump nt