Lakota Sioux Protest President Trump's Fourth of July Celebration at Mt Rushmore

Join Oglala Lakota Elders Philamean Lakota, Basil Brave Heart and the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Legal Counsel, Chase Iron Eyes in a conversation about the true history of the monument known as Mount Rushmore.  In this conversation, they will request broad support and prayer for what is developing with the upcoming July 3 gathering in the sacred Black Hills.  They are seeking a peaceful outcome that creates real solutions in relation to the current global movement for justice and truth.

The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore: The sculptor, Gutzon  Borglum behind the American landmark had some unseemly ties to white supremacy groups. (Mathew Shaer Smithsonian Magazine October 2016)

"While there isn’t proof that Borglum officially joined the Klan, which helped fund the project, “he nonetheless became deeply involved in Klan politics,” John Taliaferro writes in Great White Fathers, his 2002 history of Mount Rushmore.