Paha Sapa, Custer’s Last Stand, Mt. Rushmore, and Wounded Knee: A history of the Black Hills in one diagram

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

A lot of stories are linked to the Black Hills; a lot of dots connect there. Here’s a very abbreviated history.

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Black Hills history

See this blog post for more background on the Great Sioux Nation, both past and present. A lot of this is encapsulated in this 7-minute YouTube video.

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Native Americans express their feelings about Rushmore. The name comes from an illegal gold miner in the Black Hills. The carvings represent a societal example of adding insult to injury.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About Stephen Carr Hampton

Stephen Carr Hampton is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, an avid birder since age 7, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game, where he worked as a tribal liaison and conducted natural resource damage assessments and oversaw environmental restoration projects after oil spills. He writes most often about Native history and contemporary issues, birds, and climate change.
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