The Dark history of Mount Rushmore Ted Ed

Native Americans first inhabited the Black Hills area about_____________.

• 1,000 years ago

• 10,000 years ago

• 26,000 years ago

• 500 years ago

The U.S. and the Lakota signed the______________ in 1868, which gave the Black Hills to the Lakota forever.

• Treaty of Ft. Stanwix

• Treaty of Ft. Stanwix

• Treaty of Ft. Laramie

• Treaty of Cheyenne

The sculptor who created Mt. Rushmore, _______________, died in 1941 before he finished his work.

• Frederic Remington

• Gutzon Borglum

• Richard Serra

• Daniel Chester French

The Lakota called the mountain that is now Mr. Rushmore_________________, and it was sacred to their Native Nation.

• The Six Grandfathers

• The Seven Sisters

• Devil’s Tower

In 1980 the__________________ ruled that the Black Hills were illegally taken by the U.S., and the Lakota were entitled to compensation.

• Federal District Court

• The U.S. President

• Congress

• Supreme Court