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Native Americans protesting Trump trip to Mount Rushmore

by Associated Press
| June 25, 2020 11:03 AM

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plans to kick off Independence Day with a showy display at Mount Rushmore have angered Native Americans, who view the monument as a desecration of land violently stolen from them and used to pay homage to leaders hostile to Indigenous people.

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