Mr. Bear Runner Goes to Rushmore
Released Friday, 3rd July 2020
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Mr. Bear Runner Goes to Rushmore
Mr. Bear Runner Goes to Rushmore
Friday, 3rd July 2020
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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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