Not Everyone Thinks Mount Rushmore is Beautiful!

The Sioux see Mount Rushmore as a desecration of a beautiful, sacred mountain, an insult so grotesque that it is almost unspeakable. The late medicine man Lame Deer once said that the monument "fits into our sacred Black Hills like a red-hot iron poker into somebody's eye... They could just as well have carved this mountain into a huge cavalry boot standing on a dead Indian."

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