South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, has a simple response to those that question whether Mount Rushmore will be taken down: 'Not on my watch.'
The controversial side of Mount Rushmore goes beyond the slave holding pasts of Washington and Jefferson, however.
The U.S. Court of Claims found in 1979 that the Sioux Nation was entitled to $17.1 million in compensation due to the federal government's seizure of the Black Hills. The following year, U.S. Supreme Court decided 8-1 that the federal government had violated the Fifth Amendment and the tribes were entitled to compensation in United State v. Sioux Nation of Indians. The tribes declined the compensation because it would legally end their demand for the Black Hills to be returned to them.
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