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♪ ♪ for many americans, mount rushmore is one of the countrys most patriotic and awe-inspiring symbols, like a giant apple pie wrapped in a kid rock t-shirt, yee-ha. but for others, its a reminder that this country was intended to be whites only. as we talk about the removal of controversial monuments and statues, mount rushmore is a part of that. located in the black hills of western south dakota, its become the epicenter in a battle over who are the rightful inhabitants and car...

>> no justice! >> no peace! >> i actually believe that the best days of our people are in front of us and not behind us. it requires us to do something different than we have done, something different than what got us here. and landback is a huge part of the answer for the country. "united shades of america" is sponsored by ally. do it right.

Worth? how much can i give you for your grandma? oh, no amount? the lakota understand this. does that mean at the core of it, landback wants the whole country back? >> thats a big question. >> im here to ask the big questions. >> on record, yes. yes, native people want all of our land back in this country. and the conclusion that people jump to that thats a bad thing is the wrong conclusion. >> so the person sitting in their house and theyre hearing the landback, we want all the land back, and t...

The land. >> yes, yes. >> so when they violate treaties, they violate the very constitution which they swore an oath to. >> lets make something absolutely clear. when the united states signed hundreds of land treaties with sovereign indigenous nations and then broke all those treaties, the united states violated its own constitution hundreds of times. recently, the indian collective launched a landback campaign demanding that the united states government honor broken treaties and return mount ru...

Laguna, the first indigenous cabinet secretary in u.s. history announced a national missing and murdered unit to help solve cases of mmiw. landback doesnt just mean indigenous folks can take better care of their land, it also means they can take better care of their people. thats true sovereignty. >> when i was writing just the way you are, i didnt have the lyrics. tattoo studio gel pencil liner from maybelline new york. show up bold wherever you go. smudge-resistant. waterproof. up to 36-hour w...

Catholic state, but were like we like where youre going with that. >> yeah. thats been the foundation of federal indian case law since then. we are still technically by law words of the government. we have as much rights as the buffalo. were in the same department as wildlife, department of interior. what is the symbol? im department of interior. its buffalo. so what other human group is -- has their political and legal status equivalent to an animal? >> landback is how the indigenous folks of t...

Always just knew that without my culture or my language, i dont know who i would be. because it defines me as a lakota. >> i feel thats something i hear about how important it is to retain the language. >> with the elders, there was a fear especially of speaking and expressing their culture. >> they were punished for that. so its kind of our job to bring it back. >> within my generation, i see a lot more on speakers and youth who want to learn to speak. >> talk a little bit about the whole idea ...

Place that made it possible for the stealing of our land is the very systems that are in place to make it possible keep our lands from us to this day. >> we were fully thriving city economists and societies and economies precolonization. so all of who we are, our spirituality, our culture, our language, our life ways, our ceremonies, but also, our kinship systems, our governance systems, education, health care, housing, food systems are all based on this land right here. so landback is that. its...