The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’ | South Dakota | The Guardian

"We are poor because our resources were stolen from us and those resources made others billions of dollars," said Red Dawn Foster, an Oglala Lakota and South Dakota state senator representing the Pine Ridge reservation. "But our connection to the Black Hills is not a monetary one. Our main concern is that the land not be desecrated and we be allowed to resume our role as stewards of the land – that is our purpose as Lakota."

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