Mt. Blogmore, the Rapid City Journal's excellent blog, carries the interesting photo below, taken last week on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
UPDATE: To better understand the Sioux Nation's antipathy toward General Custer, read the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, which gave the Sioux a just compensation award of $106 million for the taking of the Black Hills. The Sioux have refused to take the money, believing that doing so will relinquish their claim to the Black Hills, which was ceded to them in the Treaty of 1868. Edward Lazarus, author of the book Black Hills, White Justice, writes that this belief is probably erroneous, and advocates that the Sioux take the money. Today, the just compensation award is gathering dust in a federal trust account, and is now worth more than $500 million.
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