Monuments are Tools

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]The shadow side. Monuments are tools of historical erasure as much as remembrance.

[00:00:05]They declare this is what matters.

[00:00:07]Everything else is footnotes. The choice is to carve four presidents into Lakota land rather than acknowledge the genocide that made that possible.

[00:00:16]Or the choice to do that is an active choice.

[00:00:19]Every monument to westward expansion is simultaneously a monument to indigenous dispossession.

[00:00:26]Columbus Day much? Thanksgiving much?

[00:00:30]Moving on.