Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who carved (Lakota would say desecrated) Mt. Rushmore had previously begun, commissioned by the KKK, the Confederate shrine-monument to the failed rebellion to preserve human slavery that is Stone Mountain, GA.
2) Trump celebrating the 4th of July at a #COVID19 super-spreader event at Mt. Rushmore is of a piece with his decision to form a Homeland Security division to protect monuments & statues. Rushmore is, of course, on sacred land stolen (a treaty violation) from the Lakota tribes.
3) The story of how the Lakota Black Hills land was stolen from the Lakota is covered in this important thread from Jeff Ostler

https://twitter.com/Jeff__Ostler/status/1278441872621473797

He does mentions Gutzon Borglum but gets some of the details wrong.
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