Articles for tag: monuments

A Monument Built on Broken Treaties: The Legal Battle for the Black Hills

A Monument Built on Broken Treaties: The Legal Battle for the Black Hills

Annette Uy

The story of the Black Hills is one of breathtaking beauty shadowed by profound loss and betrayal. Imagine towering granite spires piercing the sky, ancient forests whispering in the wind, and sacred lands that have shaped a people’s identity for generations. Now, imagine those same lands taken, treaties shattered, and a legal fight raging for ...

From Rushmore to Crazy Horse: Competing Visions of History in the Black Hills

From Rushmore to Crazy Horse: Competing Visions of History in the Black Hills

Annette Uy

There is a place where granite giants rise from the forest, their faces staring out across centuries and stirring the deepest questions about who we are and what stories we choose to remember. The Black Hills of South Dakota are a land of breathtaking beauty and fierce meaning, a region where two colossal monuments—Mount Rushmore ...

Statues That Fell: What the Removal of Confederate Monuments Reveals About Us

Statues That Fell: What the Removal of Confederate Monuments Reveals About Us

Annette Uy

There are moments in history when stone and bronze tumble to the ground, and the world seems to pause, holding its breath. The removal of Confederate monuments across the United States has become one of those electrifying moments—a dramatic, sometimes chaotic spectacle that is about so much more than metal and marble. These statues, once ...