Target donated money to a group called the NDN Collective that wants to close Mount Rushmore as it is “an international symbol of white supremacy and colonization.”.According to Fox News, the NDN based in South Dakota stated that Mount Rushmore and the land and other public lands in the Black Hills of South Dakota should be returned to indigenous people..“Not only does Mount Rushmore sit in the heart of the sacred Black Hills, but it is an international symbol of white supremacy and colonization,” said the NDN in a news release. .“To truly dismantle white supremacy and systems of oppression, we have to go back to the roots. Which, for us, is putting indigenous lands back in indigenous hands.”.“Mount Rushmore is an international symbol of white supremacy, and as people across America rightfully pull down statues of white supremacy, we have to look long and hard at how this national monument in the Black Hills upholds and maintains white supremacy on indigenous lands,” said NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen..“Our LANDBACK efforts started at Mount Rushmore as we not only took a stand against white supremacy and Trump’s racist rhetoric that day, but also in demanding that Mount Rushmore be shut down as a national monument and that all public lands in the Black Hills be returned to indigenous people.”.NDN’s “Landback” campaign has a slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” This slogan is also used by terrorist organizations that hate Israel and promote the elimination of Jews from Israel..“The US military is in the explicit business of taking land away from communities all around the world and using their presence on their land to carry out their own agenda for the inhabitants of that area,” said the NDN..“Violence is fundamental for the US to maintain its presence, and the military is how they establish dominance domestically and internationally, wherever they may be.”.“The origin of the US military and police is rooted in the establishment of informal militias composed of newly arrived settlers looking to make money and own land,” said the NDN..“The purpose of these informal militias, however, was not to keep the police or protect citizens, but to clear the land of as many Natives as possible by killing indiscriminately and catching runaway enslaved Africans.”
