Oglala Lakota Tribe Member Nick Tilsen Says Mount Rushmore Is a ‘Symbol of White Supremacy’

‘You have four white men who were colonizers who committed genocide against the indigenous people’

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TILSEN: "The biggest message is that Mount Rushmore is really a national symbol — symbolism — a symbol of white supremacy. When you have, when you carve out four white men who were colonizers, who committed genocide against indigenous people, and then steal that land from them and carve these faces into the sacred place. And for that to be okay in society today, is fundamentally wrong."

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