All market data delayed 20 minutes. These are external links and will open in a new windowNative American groups are planning to protest against President Donald Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore at the start of the Independence Day weekend.Activists have long taken issue with the South Dakota monument to former US presidents, which was built on land sacred to the Sioux tribe.Mr Trump will bring fighter jets and fireworks to Mount Rushmore on 3 July as his campaigning tour continues.The controversial trip comes amid heightened racial tensions nationwide.Mount Rushmore features the 60ft (18.2m) high faces of four US presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.The monument was carved into the granite rock face between 1927 and 1941.But the land the memorial lies on - the Black Hills of South Dakota - was taken from the indigenous Lakota Sioux by the US government in 1800s.Its sculptor was reportedly a white supremacist with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.Some Native American activists say the land should be returned to the Sioux and the monument brought down. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. Sheriff's deputies and National Guard troops confront protesters near Mount Rushmore, S.D. Others say indigenous groups should receive economic benefits from tourism to the site.Another tribe member and local activist Nick Tilsen "It's an injustice to actively steal Indigenous people's land then carve the white faces of the conquerors who committed genocide.

All rights reserved. More:President Trump plans fiery speech for Mount Rushmore fireworks Trump supporters were also on the scene, but authorities were keeping them away from protesters. "The row over Mr Trump's visit comes as across the US, statues of leaders with ties to slavery have come down in the wake of the George Floyd protests.The president is expected soon to sign an executive order to make any vandalism or destruction of public statues and federal monuments punishable by jail time.On Thursday evening, he told a Fox News town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin: "Every night we're going to get tougher and tougher [on statue protesters] and at some point there is going to be retribution because there has to be. However, the The Journal also reported that law enforcement in riot gear as well as members of the National Guard had declared an unlawful assembly.Police later used pepper spray on several protesters to break up the standoff and tow trucks were brought in to remove the vans blocking the road. Arrests were made after protesters ignored a police-imposed deadline to leave.The Journal reported that the lower bowl of the amptheater where Trump was scheduled to speak at approximately 8:50 p.m. local time was full, but there were many empty seats in the upper level.President Trump has been outspoken against recent protests across America that have targeted historical monuments and statues demonstrators feel represent a pattern of systematic racism in the U.S.Sources confirmed for Fox News earlier Friday that Trump planned on addressing the “totalitarian behavior that is completely alien to American life” and the “cancel culture” he believes is being pushed by the left.He is also expected to emphasize America’s history as a “great and virtuous country.”“You can expect the president to express strong support for America’s military, the men and women of our police, and so many of our cherished principles and institutions that are under attack daily from the left," a senior administration official told Fox News in a statement Friday evening.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

All market data delayed 20 minutes. Several demonstrators climbed on top of the vans chanting “Land back!”The sheriff’s office said attendees had been told to arrive early and should have been past the roadblock by the time the standoff began.

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About 15 protesters were arrested Friday after they blocked an access road to Mount Rushmore hours before President Trump was scheduled to give remarks to kick off Independence Day weekend. With several hours left until Trump’s ‘Salute America’ event to mark Independence Day was to kick off at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Friday, an estimated 200 to 300 protesters effectively made the road leading into the venue impassible. All rights reserved. "Monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson - who both owned slaves - are among those that have been removed or torn down. "These people are vandals, but they're agitators, but they're really, they're terrorists in a sense. A statue of Theodore Roosevelt, featuring the former president flanked by a Native American man and an African man, in New York is also to be removed - a plan Mr Trump called "ridiculous".But South Dakota's Republican Governor Kristi Noem rejected the notion that Mount Rushmore would be next, tweeting: "Not on my watch. "Mr Trump's planned visit made headlines earlier this month for his decision to host the first fireworks at Mount Rushmore in over a decade, despite environmental concerns.The monument is surrounded by a national forest and some fear the display could set off wildfires in the dry brush.But park officials said they were "confident" the fireworks could be conducted safely, The prime minister announced the move in a TV address as clashes continued for a third day. In a fiery speech, President Trump railed against “angry mobs” that were trying to “tear down statues” at a rally at Mt.

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