#KnowYourHistory #ItsAllNativeLand #ReadAndResearch #AmericaAintShit #RPWorthy from @mr.world___ As always don't believe me please do your own research:  Indian Country Today Archives Native History: Construction of Mount Rushmore Begins  gizmodo.com. The carving into the mountain the Sioux call Six Grandfathers began October 4, 1927. Christina Rose Oct 4, 2013  Native History: Construction of Mount Rushmore Begins. This Date in Native History: On October 4, 1927, sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the faces of four presidents into the granite of the sacred Black Hills. For the Lakota, the slashing of the stone exemplified disrespect in itself, but beyond that, there was something almost mocking about having four American presidents, all of whom had supported genocidal Indian policies, looking down at the Lakota people. The heads of each of the four presidents measure 60 feet high and the monument took six and a half years to complete. The presidents represented on the face of the mountain the Sioux called Six Grandfathers had some terrible Indian policies, here are some highlights: Lincoln was responsible for hanging the Dakota 38, the largest mass hanging in U.S. history. RELATED: Debunking Lincoln, the ‘Great Emancipator’ George Washington declared an all-out extermination against the Iroquois people in 1779. RELATED: George Washington Letter Describes Killing of Natives as ‘Villainy’ Thomas Jefferson supported a policy of assimilation, and failing that, extermination of the Cherokee and the Creek. He said all Natives should be driven beyond the Mississippi or, “take up the hatchet” and “never lay it down until they are all exterminated.” Theodore Roosevelt, who, shortly after being elected governor of New York, announced, “This continent had to be won. We need not waste our time in dealing with any sentimentalist who believes that, on account of any abstract principle, it would have been right to leave this continent to the domain, the hunting ground of squalid savages. It had to be taken by the white race.” - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3WWFcHOJV/?igshid=1epvkl9t3onp7
