Doane Robinson was the state historian of South Dakota in 1927 when the work began for the carving of four American presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. The four faces would look Southeast over the Lakota lands and beyond, in spite of the fact that the whole area had been sacred to the Native Americans as far back as they could remember and relay. It was Doane’s idea, and his proposal to the state, to create a monument carved into the landscape somewhere that would attr