A Boarding School Memorial

Statue Honors Survivors and Victims of the

Boarding School Era



In South Dakota the statue ‘Tiwahe’ honors survivors and victims of the boarding school era. It stands 7 feet tall and was recently unveiled. Slowly this history of the Native American Boarding Schools is being known. Here is the article.

A new statue in Rapid City called "Tiwahe" depicts a Lakota family surrounding a young boy dressed in a boarding school uniform. Credit: Amelia Schafer / ICT

ON THE OTHER HAND...

An image of the proposed “National Garden of Heroes” features the Mount Rushmore National Monument in Keystone, SD in the background. Courtesy Photo.

Trump’s proposed “Garden of Heroes” on Lakota homelands in the Black Hills, without consent

from Native People. 

The current administration is setting aside 40 million dollars to create a National Garden of 250 American Heroes. The insult to Native Nations is that the plan locates this Park in the foreground of Mt. Rushmore which is the most sacred and holy land for the Lakota people.

The US Government broke their treaties with the Lakota and carved the US Presidents on their sacred mountain. The disregard and disrespect for the Indigenous Peoples continues with the Trump administration. Furthermore this is in the context of the many financial cuts to the health and welfare of Native communities since he took office.

The Lakota have been fighting for the return of their land since 1868, when gold was discovered and the government did not uphold their treaty promise. The BLACK HILLS JUSTICE movement seeks to return their sacred lands back to the Lakota People.

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