[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: President Trump’s 4th of July visit to Mt Rushmore is a continuation of Indigenous erasure (Indigenous Environmental Network) / Native American Protesters Block The Road Leading To Mount Rushmore

[Jai Sen]

Sunday, July 5, 2020

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The Indigenous Environmental Network stands in solidarity with tribal leaders demanding the removal of Mount Rushmore, also known as the Seven Grandfathers. The Seven Grandfathers are sacred to many tribal nations who lived and prayed freely in the areas surrounding He Sapa or the “Black Hills.” We will not mince words, America was founded upon the genocide, enslavement and theft of Indigenous peoples and land. There is no better representation of this violence than the desecration of the Seven Grandfathers with the Mt. Rushmore carvings of colonizer faces. This sacred land was, is, and shall always be Indigenous land.[1] <applewebdata://B21E8EB3-10EB-40E5-97D7-04BA260F7DE0#_ftn1>
President Trump’s 4th of July visit to Mt Rushmore is a continuation of Indigenous erasure

Indigenous Environmental Network

Native American Protesters Block The Road Leading To Mount Rushmore

Ashley Collman, Business Insider <https://www.businessinsider.com/native-americans-blocked-road-to-mount-rushmore-before-trump-speech-2020-7>
https://popularresistance.org/native-american-protesters-blocked-the-road-leading-to-mount-rushmore/ <https://popularresistance.org/native-american-protesters-blocked-the-road-leading-to-mount-rushmore/>

[1] <applewebdata://B21E8EB3-10EB-40E5-97D7-04BA260F7DE0#_ftnref1> In case anyone else is confused by the sentence “The Indigenous Environmental Network stands in solidarity with tribal leaders demanding the removal of Mount Rushmore, also known as the Seven Grandfathers”, I think what it meant to say was “The Indigenous Environmental Network stands in solidarity with tribal leaders demanding the removal of Mount Rushmore, which was carved out of hills also known as the Seven Grandfathers.” - js


Above photo: Activists and members of different tribes from the region block the road to the Mount Rushmore National Monument as they protest in Keystone, South Dakota on July 3, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images.

Faced off with the National Guard in the hours before Trump’s speech.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that the Black Hills — where Mount Rushmore resides — was unlawfully taken from the Sioux people. 

A group of mainly Native American protesters blocked the road leading up to Mount Rushmore for three hours before President Donald Trump gave a speech at the national monument Friday night.

@jayfug
 <https://twitter.com/jayfug?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279445273161412609%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopularresistance.org%2Fnative-american-protesters-blocked-the-road-leading-to-mount-rushmore%2F> <https://twitter.com/jayfug/status/1279445273161412609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279445273161412609%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopularresistance.org%2Fnative-american-protesters-blocked-the-road-leading-to-mount-rushmore%2F>A few photos I took at the Mount Rushmore protest yesterday, ones I didn't get time to post among everything.
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By 7 p.m., 15 protesters who refused to leave the road had been arrested.

Trump went on to give a divisive speech at Mount Rushmore, saying the country was under siege by “far-left” fascists waging “a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children.”

The Black Hills, where Mount Rushmore is located, is a sacred area for local Native Americans, and a contested space.

The Supreme Court in 1980 ruled that the United States had illegally taken the land from the Sioux tribe in a deal brokered in 1873. The Mount Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941.

CHECK OUT https://twitter.com/Native3rd/status/1279482494987927553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279482494987927553%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopularresistance.org%2Fnative-american-protesters-blocked-the-road-leading-to-mount-rushmore%2F <https://twitter.com/Native3rd/status/1279482494987927553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279482494987927553%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopularresistance.org%2Fnative-american-protesters-blocked-the-road-leading-to-mount-rushmore%2F>    

Jeff Ostler, a historian at the University of Oregon, told ABC News <https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/native-americans-mount-rushmore-symbol-broken-treaties-white/story?id=71594501> that the federal government had offered the Sioux people a settlement of $1 billion for taking the land. The tribe has refused, saying they will only accept their land back.

Some of the protesters on Friday held signs reading “Protect SoDak’s First People,” “You Are On Stolen Land,” and “Dismantle White Supremacy,” according to the Associated Press <https://abc11.com/mount-rushmore-mt-protests-president-trump/6296294/>.

Hehakaho Waste, a spiritual elder with the Oglala Sioux tribe, told the AP: “The president needs to open his eyes. We’re people, too, and it was our land first.”

 

CHECK OUT https://ndncollective.org/ndn-collective-announces-black-hills-bail-and-legal-defense-fund-following-mt-rushmore-arrests/ <https://ndncollective.org/ndn-collective-announces-black-hills-bail-and-legal-defense-fund-following-mt-rushmore-arrests/>
 


Before being led off in handcuffs, Nick Tilsen, President and CEO of The NDN Collective said, “Our people have fought for this land and we will continue to. This won’t be the last. Our goal isn’t just to resist, but to radically imagine a better future.”


President Trump’s 4th of July visit to Mt Rushmore is a continuation of Indigenous erasure

Indigenous Environmental Network


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The Indigenous Environmental Network stands in solidarity with tribal leaders demanding the removal of Mount Rushmore, also known as the Seven Grandfathers. The Seven Grandfathers are sacred to many tribal nations who lived and prayed freely in the areas surrounding He Sapa or the “Black Hills.” We will not mince words, America was founded upon the genocide, enslavement and theft of Indigenous peoples and land. There is no better representation of this violence than the desecration of the Seven Grandfathers with the Mt. Rushmore carvings of colonizer faces. This sacred land was, is, and shall always be Indigenous land.
 
The He Sapa is central to the spiritual and political integrity of many native nations, including the Lakota, Shoshoni, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Crow. For the Lakota, the “Black Hills” is the site of their creation story and was included in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, another broken agreement by the United States to protect this region for Lakota living and use. The federal government has been ordered by the courts to compensate the Lakota for this stolen land, but for decades the tribes have refused to take any money. You cannot commodify the sacred nor can capitalism erase the trauma of colonization.
 
President Trump’s Fourth of July visit to Mt Rushmore is a continuation of Indigenous resilience and history being erased from national dialogues. This spectacle is nothing more than  a reminder that settler colonialism is alive and well. As the Indigenous Environmental Network, we will continue to fight for Indigenous solidarity and the rights of nature because we know the next seven generations of life deserve nothing less.  




 
 
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