>Before the presidents faces were carved into Mt.Rushmore it was called The Six Grandfathers by the Lakota tribe. Pres. Grant seized the land after gold was discovered and allowed hunters to collect $200 for each Indian killed. Later, the carvings were partly paid for by the KKK.
Why are americans like this?
it's pretty fucking ugly and in poor taste honestly.
Yeah, that is one ugly mountain. Luckily we made it into something cool.
>Later, the carvings were partly paid for by the KKK.
Can I get a source on that? Also, Americans were crystal clear they wanted to genocide the Native Americans, so this isn't a surprise.
If genocide was the goal, then why did they always have reservations even when it got to the point where killing them to the very last person would have been feasible?
An asshole society still suffers the same thing any other society does. Delinquents. Some of them happened to have hearts for the natives.
Literally Theodore Roosevelt:
>Roosevelt argued the frontier conditions created a newrace: the American people that replaced the "scattered savage tribes, whose life was but a few degrees less meaningless, squalid, and ferocious than that of the wild beasts with whom they held joint ownership". He believed "the conquest and settlement by the whites of the Indian lands was necessary to the greatness of the race and to the well-being of civilized mankind"
>Theodore Roosevelt said in 1886, “I suppose I should be ashamed to say that I take the Western view of the Indian. I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”
Proof for any of this? Not just Lakota having a name for the mountain, but also prove that it actually had some kind of significance beyond just being named. Also the rest of that because it just sounds like atrocity propaganda.
>Also the rest of that because it just sounds like atrocity propaganda.
About every American interaction with natives will "sound" like atrocity propaganda. The popular image is that plains natives did the scalping, but Americans had been scalping Indians for monetary gain since colonial days.
>nooo not muh heckin injunerinos! not muh poor heckin savages! they dindu nuffin to nobody, they're innocent victims of the violent whiteman
Americans scalped dead Indians as proof they had been killed. Indians scalped Americans alive.
indians already scalped eachother. its now like they treated americans different because of their race. if anything they saw them as equals so they got scalped like any other native would.
you're in denial, can't come to terms with the fact that your shitstain country only exists because of atrocities.
atrocity propaganda, lmao. amerifats truly are beyond saving, you deserve everything bad that's coming to you
Twitter/tumblr tier fanfiction
>Under the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised the territory, including the entirety of the Black Hills, to the Sioux "so long as the buffalo may range thereon in such numbers as to justify the chase."[19] After the discovery of gold on the land, American settlers migrated to the area in the 1870s. The federal government then forced the Sioux to relinquish the Black Hills portion of their reservation.[18]
>Mount Rushmore was known to the Lakota Sioux as "The Six Grandfathers" (Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe) or "Cougar Mountain" (Igmútȟaŋka Pahá);[20][21] but American settlers knew it variously as Cougar Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain, Slaughterhouse Mountain and Keystone Cliffs. As Six Grandfathers, the mountain was on the route that Lakota leader Black Elk took in a spiritual journey that culminated at Black Elk Peak.
>The 1980 United States Supreme Court decision United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians[87] ruled that the Sioux had not received just compensation for their land in the Black Hills,[88] which includes Mount Rushmore. The court proposed $102 million as compensation for the loss of the Black Hills. This compensation was valued at $1.3 billion in 2011,[89] and – with accumulated interest – nearly $2 billion in 2021. In 2020, Oglala Lakota Nation citizen and Indigenous activist Nick Tilsen explained that his people would not accept a settlement, "because we won't settle for anything less than the full return of our lands as stipulated by the treaties our nations signed and agreed upon."[90]
>the winners do what they please
Sounds like history.
jesus christ
death to america
I would be shocked if you were living on land that was at not some point in history conquered by an invading group.
this poster is 5'5"
im 187cm
dont know what thats in burgerheight
>Buttblasted foreigner
Mount Rushmore will become a UNESCO heritage site just like the Afghan Buddha statues. These things literally just need a few centuries of age to gain "classiness" and boom nobody cares how it got that way
Boo-hoo. If only Americans actually did genocide the natives instead of being benevolent overlords.
>benevolent overlords
kek, mutts can't really self-reflect
Did this fellow convert to Mormonism?
No he was simply civilized from savagery
Mental how you can actually see the intelligence in his eyes after being educated
left: SOVL
right: soulless
I'm not Indian so I don't give a shit
They don't give a shit about my problems either
You gullible retard get your booster
every bush, tree, and rock is a sacred whatever to indians and if you let them they'll claim everything is theirs. I'm glad we defeated them and drove their remnant into concentration camps and then obliterated their culture by forcing them to assimilate into our superior culture.
They could have made guns and won the war if they wanted. Whites aren't inherently superior to indians.
Interesting how, while the 13 colonies and later United States always seemed to pursue a policy of extermination, it was the exact opposite in the areas controlled by the Hudson’s bay company.
Tribes in Rupert’s land (essentially private property of the company) experienced baby booms as the flow of European goods increased. Company exploration parties were instructed to try and negotiate peace between any groups they encountered and encourage both parties to enter the service of the company.
Nowadays, the bulk of canadas native population lives in what was formerly Rupert’s land, and the most numerous ethnic groups are those that aligned with the company and made themselves useful.
>tldr more natives in western Canada because it’s bad business to kill your employees
It's bad business to have bad employees. Canada fugged up.
It's because the relationship between these was different. The Hudson Bay Company paid the Indians in goods that they figured would be useful for them, effectively creating a master-serf relationship. The Indians that were integrated into american life were meanwhile given money which they've spend according to their savage whims, that is gambling and alcohol and then they couldn't afford food or sustain a family. This generated effect where the indians believed Americans destroy their people and didn't want to cooperate with them, meanwhile in Canada they always remembered these good times, even after this kind of deals were replaced with furs for dollar kind of deal and the troglodytes shared the fate of their brethren down south.
More like it's bad business to allow European-style agriculture (including livestock and population sizes) when you're in the fur trade.Just too environmentally destructive.
The natives had what was a luxury for Europeans, and Europeans had things that were luxuries for the natives. The area was settled by people who came to do business, and did what was reasonable.
The US at the time was a mix of penal colonies, pirate hideouts, and their descendants, who largely kept living the way they were used to.
The original proposal also had famous native americans next to the presidents.
Thank god they didn't put that crap on there
Original proposal was also supposed to have the upper torso of everyone.
Most likely they weren't called anything but when they smelled money in suing whoever there was to sue they've started claiming that it was.
WHAAAAAAAAAT???
THE PRESIDENTS FACES WERE CARVED AND NOT A NATURAL FORMATION??!!
SAY IT AINT SO!!88!
They're trying to carve an even bigger monument in the Black Hills that's dedicated to Crazy Horse, but it will probably never be finished. In the front is a model of what it is supposed to look like; in the back is what it looks like now.
its being built by some polish weirdo and most lakota have disavowed it i think
because it makes Crazy Horse look like the standard bearer for a Gay Pride march?
in 50 years time it'll be torn down and replaced with a giant george floyd head
Because woe be to the defeated. Supreme is the victor.
>Why are americans like this?
It's called "based"