Black Elk Peak Poem by Ima Ryma

Native Americans were here
Long before Europeans came,
And made whole cultures disappear -
The manifest destiny game.
The white men's names were stuck upon
Natural wonders of the land
That white men's greed grabbed profits on.
It's time for right to take a stand.
South Dakota's now Black Elk Peak,
Renamed for a holy Sioux man,
Is a beginning change to speak
To a much better naming plan.

Greedy mining lawyer of yore -
Let's change the name of Mt. Rushmore.