TED-Ed
The dark history of Mount Rushmore - Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means
2021 • E124 Dec 16, 2021 5m
Between 1927 and 1941, workers blasted 450,000 tons of rock from a mountainside using chisels, jackhammers, and dynamite. Gradually, they carved out Mount Rushmore. Today, the monument draws nearly 3 million people to South Dakota’s Black Hills every year. But its façade belies a dark history. Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means explore the destruction of the sacred Six Grandfathers Mountain.
Lesson by Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means, directed by Anton Bogaty.
Lesson by Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means, directed by Anton Bogaty.