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Officials in South Dakota are pushing hard to build President Donald Trump‘s proposed National Garden of American Heroes in the Black Hills near Mount Rushmore, but the effort has sparked a backlash from Indigenous groups who see the area as sacred. https://tinyurl.com/2xusuo7o 

This isn't just about #archaeology jobs, it is about a public process that works to engage local government, local constituents, descendant communities, and sovereign Tribal Nations. This proposal makes consultation of any meaningful kind entirely up to the discretion of the Agency official. 1/13

Why worry about an enemy attacking WDC? Trump has already shown how he can destroy architectural treasures with the reflecting pool and KenCen. What a shame that he's trying to "refurbish" a Saarinen classic. It's like a child finger painting over the Mona Lisa to make her look happy. #fascism

Trump doesn't want anyone questioning him when he screws up by destroying the East Wing or polluting the reflecting pool--really doesn't want indigenous people protesting when he snatches Choco Canyon for oil drilling. ~~~ savingplaces.org/stories/sect...