Ignoble history of Mount Rushmore

Before the Presidents' faces were carved into Mount Rushmore,it was called The Six Grandfathers,part of The Sacred Black Hills of the Lakota Tribe.The U.S.Government seized the land illegally in 1877,after gold had been discovered there.President Ulysses Grant secretly ordered the army not to protect local tribes,as bounty hunters collected up to $300 for each Native American killed.The carving of four presidents into the hills took place in the 1920's ,funded in part by the Ku Klux Klan.