For some Native Americans, Mount Rushmore is a symbol of broken treaties, white domination. In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled the Black Hills should still be Native land.

Mount Rushmore was named for Charles E. Rushmore, ... was designated “unfit for civilization,” and “Permanent Indian Country” in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.

The concept for Mount Rushmore was proposed by historian Doane Robinson in 1923 as a bold way to draw tourists to the state as more ... the site is also home to the Indian Museum of North ...