Mount Rushmore National Memorial

The mountain was called Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Pahá — Six Grandfathers — by the Lakota, for whom the entire Black Hills region was sacred ground. The U.S. broke the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1877 and took it anyway. Between 1927 and 1941, sculptor Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers used dynamite, jackhammers, and fine carving tools to cut 60-foot faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln into the granite. The project finished without a single fatality. The Sioux have never stopped demanding the land back.