Comment on Rushmore

culprit@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  curious, where is this from?

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    squints

    Civ… 4?

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• mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A sacred mountain range taken from the Lakota Sioux by gunpoint in the Great Sioux War of 1876.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    And the Lakota Sioux took it from the Cheyenne tribe by arrow point only 100 years prior to that. So yea, the Sioux had the land stolen from them by force, but they stole it by force themselves before that. And by this point, the US has controlled the land longer than the Sioux ever did.

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