On #ThisDayInHistory in 1941, the #MountRushmore monument was completed (more or less). It permanently defaced the #SixGrandfathers mountain, a sacred site for the #Lakota. Its designer, #GutzonBorglum, was a #KKK member who also designed the #StoneMountain #Confederate monument.
#sixgrandfathers #mtrushmore #blackhills
🔥Those pale faces weren't "carved" into The Six Grandfathers. They were dynamited. And you know who funded it?
The Ku Klux Klan.🔥
Before y'all get worked up over der American fuhrer and his supporters proposing putting his face on Mount Rushmore, consider the history of Mount Rushmore in the first place. #SixGrandfathers
… it will always be #ComiskeyPark. … #Denali is a cool name and great ice cream #sixGrandfathers… or #IgmuTankaPaha to replace #Rushmore a better movie than lawyer. While I’m at it— #TurtleIsland is pretty sweet too.
#Resist and learn #History
Defaced Mountain, South Dakota. Mordançaged Silver Gelatin Print, shot on Infrared Film in a Mamiya 7.
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#NativeAmerican #IndigenousNativePeoples #USAhistory #winterboots #Utah #AZ #NM #MMM #TheBlackHills #SixGrandfathers #BearsEars #NajavoNation #Denali and many many many more.
#indigenousterritory #homeofthebrave #nationalparkservice #climatechange #saynototrump #saynoto47 #block47 #landofthefree #equalopportunity #democracy #USA #antifa #antifascist #antifascism #fightback #sixgrandfathers #takeourcountryback
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Considering the real Mt. Rushmore destroyed the #SixGrandfathers to boost Teddy Roosevelt's legacy, sounds about right
Considering the real Mt. Rushmore destroyed the #SixGrandfathers to boost Teddy Roosevelt's legacy, sounds about right.
Six Grandfathers aka Thunkášila Šákpe
#MountRushmore #SixGrandfathers #indigenous #indigenouspeople #nativeamericans #ushistory
The Six Grandfathers before it was carved up to create Mount Rushmore
If you don't know it already, read the history of The Six Grandfathers
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color image close-up of Abraham Lincoln at the Mt. Rushmore monument with snow covering to top of one eyebrow
color image close-up of Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt at the Mt. Rushmore monument ... Jefferson has snow on the bridge of his nose and forehead
color image close-up of George Washington at the Mt. Rushmore monument with snow covering his forehead and shoulder, and the right half of Jefferson's face showing in the background
color image distant look at the Mt. Rushmore monument showing the four presidents faces and the debris pile left from the carving process with snow capping their heads and shoulders
Abe, Tom, Teddy, George ... and the post-carving debris pile of the mountain the Lakota called "Six Grandfathers" before it was called Mount Rushmore
📷#mountrushmore #southdakota #sixgrandfathers #lakota
