Consulting with the Sioux Tribal Councils, 2
designed specifically to be attractive to Native Americans, plans were discussed to have American Indian college students volunteering at the park to collect oral histories from any visiting Native elders who cared to share the stories of their lives. (www.rapidcityjournal.com)
The session was considered by all to be a success. While some might be unreasonably fearful of radical change, or villifying the colossal achievements of Gutzon Borglum and the construction crew for Mount Rushmore, Gerard Baker has set a very positive tone and appears to be guiding the park under his care to adopt a position of balanced information with no push toward any single conclusion or interpretation. An education which results in questions and not prefabricated answers is an education which does not stop.
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