Regarding the Black Hills, Russell Means, an American Indian Movement activist and Oglala Sioux, says that "the Crazy Horse Monument in the Black Hills is a farce." Its promoters, of course, think they are celebrating Indianness. Means continues "its an insult to our entire being.
Its bad enough getting four white faces carved in up there on Mount Rushmore, the shrine of hypocrisy." Source: The Progressive, September 2001, p.38. The destruction of the buffalos and Indian well-being on the Great Plains As late as 1871 buffalo on the Great Plains outnumber people in North America. In that year, buffalo could be seen from a bluff in the Dakotas in every direction for 30 miles.
Herds were so large that it took days for them to pass by. Wyatt Earp described one herd of a million animals stretching over a grazing area the size of Rhode Island. Within nine years, the buffalo vanished from the Plains.
As the Civil War hero General Philip Sheridan wrote at the time: "The Buffalo hunters ... more.
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