The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
Mount Rushmore is, in the specific sense that the legal record establishes, carved into land that the United States was obligated to hold “for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation” of the Sioux Nation.
The monument stands in the Hills.
The Hills are legally contested land.
The monument is specifically excluded from every legislative proposal that has contemplated returning some of the Hills to Sioux sovereignty.
The exclusion is politically understandable.
It is also, viewed through the lens of what the treaty said and what the Supreme Court found, worth noting.
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