Oglala Sioux president calls for Mount Rushmore to be ‘removed but not blown up’

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The president of a South Dakota tribe called for Mount Rushmore to be removed, so long as the removal does not harm the existing environment.

Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner told the Argus Leader Thursday that he believed the massive carving featuring Presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson should be removed from the area, which he considers to be part of the Sioux’s Great Sioux Reservation.

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