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		</div><p>US President Donald Trump’s plans to kick off Independence Day with a showy display at Mount Rushmore are drawing criticism from Native Americans.</p>
<p>Indigenous activists view the monument as a desecration of land violently stolen from them and used to pay homage to leaders hostile to native people.</p>
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<p>Several groups led by Native American activists are planning protests for Mr Trump’s July 3 visit, part of his “comeback” campaign for a nation reeling from sickness, unemployment and, recently, social unrest.</p>
<p>The event is expected to include fighter jets thundering over the 79-year-old stone monument in South Dakota’s Black Hills and the first fireworks display at the site since 2009.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that&#8217;s still alive and well in society today</p></blockquote>
<p>But it comes amid a national reckoning over racism and a reconsideration of the symbolism of monuments around the globe.</p>
<p>Many Native Americans activists believe the Rushmore memorial is as reprehensible as the many Confederate monuments being toppled around the nation.</p>
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<p>Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and the president of a local activist organisation called NDN Collective said “Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today.</p>
<p>“It’s an injustice to actively steal Indigenous people’s land then carve the white faces of the conquerors who committed genocide.”</p>
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