In addition to publishing newspapers, pamphlets, and books, Akwesasne Notes also issued posters that readers could buy through mail order. These works all promoted Indigenous pride, either through the celebration of specific histories or by amplifying and promoting notions of sovereignty and self-determination. The site of Mount Rushmore (named in this poster as the Shrine to Hypocrisy), carved into the Lakota’s sacred Black Hills in 1941, had originally been promised to the Lakota in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie; however, this treaty was negated after the discovery of gold in the area.In this poster, created for the United States Bicentennial in 1976, the designer juxtaposes the American vision of its most important forefathers with that of Native peoples, reminding the viewer in a final quote from Nez Perce Chief Old Joseph that they had never sold the land to these “founders” of the country in the first place. The portrait is of Lakota Chief Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (Sitting Bull), leader alongside Crazy Horse at the 1876 Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn), at which they destroyed General Custer’s 7th Cavalry in defense of the very hills featured in this image. The designer of this poster employed a strategy called temporal enmeshment—the collapsing of past and present to assert ongoing Indigenous presence. By installing Sitting Bull above Roosevelt, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington—each of whom implemented destructive policies against Native peoples—the artist transforms a monument to democracy into evidence of some of its most egregious failures.