Native American protesters blocked the road leading up to Mount Rushmore and faced off with the National Guard in the hours before Trump's fiery speech

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The protesters were sprayed with pepper spray and 15 people were arrested during the demonstration on Friday.

A group of mainly Native American protesters blocked the road leading up to Mount Rushmore for three hours before President Donald Trump gave a speech at the national monument Friday night.

Trump went on to give a divisive speech at Mount Rushmore, saying the country was under siege by"far-left" fascists waging"a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children." The Supreme Court in 1980 ruled that the United States had illegally taken the land from the Sioux tribe in a deal brokered in 1873. The Mount Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941.Jeff Ostler, a historian at the University of Oregon, told ABC News that the federal government had offered the Sioux people a settlement of $1 billion for taking the land. The tribe has refused, saying they will only accept their land back.

 

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White people trying to restrict the protesting of Natives. How typical.

drfarmertx no, they blocked their own road, trump trespassed.

Anyone born and raised on the and that belongs to the USA are native. Stop trying to exalt savages who live in pockets of resistant within our borders.

Pretty sure the protest here every July 4.

Conquest. Oh well

The Black Hills of Dakota are sacred to the Sioux Indians. In the 1868 treaty, signed at Fort Laramie and other military posts in Sioux country, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people.

That's a trump sign in the shot.

Bows and arrows or M-16's! Who will win?

AND THEY DIDN’T SUCEED. LAW AND ORDER WILL PREVAIL.

More childish behavior..🤦‍♂️ let's not put these kids on the news.. come on yahoo!!😐

And they were unceremoniously removed.

Your news is from 'trusted sources'? Trusted by whom? President Xi of Communist China?

Those pesky Humans.

History was a bitch. Wars were fought, their were winners and losers. These natives ancestors owned slaves and slaughtered other tribes and stole their land. There's always a tougher guy on the block.

LOOK AT THIS COMPARISON IN REGRADS TH NATIVE AMERICANS LIKE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA IN CONTRAST TO HONG KONG.

Where’s his face mask?

Worst Sign! “Respect Mother Nature” From Carving Art into Rocks! What an Idiot. It’s Stone!!!!! Relax! And Thanks 🙏 to these four, are America wouldn’t be half of the 🇺🇸 Country it is. But Falling Down Now!

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