During an America 250 speech at Mount Rushmore, President Donald Trump linked the idea that Americans “live on stolen land” to Marxist ideology. "You can be a Communist, or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both," he said. The remarks were made on July 3, 2026, in the Black Hills, Tunkasila Sakpe Paha (Six Grandfathers Mountain), a place central to Lakota history, treaty history, and the legal record of the United States. In 1877, the United States took the Black Hills, land set aside under the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that the Black Hills had been taken by the United States and that just compensation was required. The Sioux Nation has refused the settlement (now worth over $1 billion) insisting on the return of the land itself. The day after Trump's remarks, the White House released a 162-page report criticizing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for how it presents Native history, land acknowledgments, and “stolen land”...