TED-Ed

The dark history of Mount Rushmore - Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means (2021x124)

: 16, 2021

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.