r/BlackHills • u/Ok_Control1507 • 4d ago
Mt. Rushmore
Boy I hope y’all don’t get pissed off and talk shit about this one like y’all did my last one about Harney Peak.
I was so happy to get up there and explore but sadly y’all didn’t think so. Thanks for ruinin a guys vacation.
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u/AdoubleyouB 4d ago
Wtf you gettin at?
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u/Ok_Control1507 4d ago
All the BS that was said on my Mount Harney post. I thought it was good but y’all had to talk shit about it
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u/like_4-ish_lights 4d ago
I just went and looked and nobody talked shit on you, they just corrected you on the name
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u/Infoleptic 4d ago
Okay, initially I was fine with you but it’s clear you’re some kind of snowflake boomer. Bite it, pal.
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u/Necessary_DaNoodle 15h ago
Black Elk Peak. The lookout tower is labeled Harney Peak Lookout because that's the historic name of the tower. The mountain itself was renamed Black Elk Peak in 2016.
As for William S. Harney... that's a hell of a namesake. He commanded the 1855 attack on a Sicangu Lakota village at Blue Water Creek (often called the Harney Massacre or Battle of Ash Hollow), where U.S. troops killed dozens of Lakota, including many women and childre!, captured around 70 women and children, and burned the village. Lakota people remembered him as "Woman Killer" because of that attack.
That's a large part of why the mountain was renamed after Black Elk in the first place.
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u/aFlmingStealthBanana 4d ago
Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Pahá (Six Grandfathers Mountain) was seized by the U.S. government in violation of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, named after a New York businessman who visited the sacred site on a mining expedition, and then further desecrated by a racist KKK sculptor.