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\nTED-Ed: The dark history of Mount Rushmore | Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means\n

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\nBetween 1927 and 1941, workers blasted 450,000 tons of rock from a mountainside using chisels, jackhammers, and dynamite. Gradually, they carved out Mount Rushmore. Today, the monument draws nearly 3 million people to South Dakota's...\nBetween 1927 and 1941, workers blasted 450,000 tons of rock from a mountainside using chisels, jackhammers, and dynamite. Gradually, they carved out Mount Rushmore. Today, the monument draws nearly 3 million people to South Dakota's Black Hills every year. But its façade belies a dark history. Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means explore the destruction of the sacred Six Grandfathers Mountain. [Directed Anton Bogaty, narrated by Jake Hart, music by Cem Misirlioglu and Greg Chudzik].\n
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2021
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animation, education, mount rushmore, george washington, indigenous people, theodore roosevelt, native americans, abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson, south dakota, treaties, years, governments
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