A new Mark Ruffalo documentary sheds light on the fight for the Black Hills, including Mt. Rushmore. The Lakota refuse to touch a $2bn government trust fund.
They were chanting “Land back!” — referring to the Black Hills, the tribal lands where the monument stands which were in effect stolen by the US government more than 170 years ago — but were pushed away by police in riot gear.directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli and executive produced by actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, among others, shines a light on why those demonstrators were so angry.
The US Treasury holds the settlement in trust and has a mandate to maximize returns on it, explaining its astonishing growth, the equivalent of 7.23% compounded annually for 43 years.The Lakota say the US government broke two key treaties, beginning with the Fort Laramie treaty in 1851, guaranteeing them the Black Hills. The tribe considers the isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains in western South Dakota to be its most sacred land.
“We want ownership of our land,” Krystal Two Bulls told The Post. “We want legal, titled land back. When they removed us from the land and took it away from us, they stripped us of our identity and language and dismantled our entire economy. Twenty members of the Lakota band were arrested for protesting President Trump’s rally in front of Mt. Rushmore.Protests against Trump’s visit to Mt. Rushmore in July 2020 came after years of Lakota anger at the loss of their lands.“There’s blood on the ground there,” Short Bull told The Post Tuesday. “It’s strange. I grew up in South Dakota and I live less than an hour away from the Black Hills but I rarely go there.
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