Native American groups are planning to protest against President Donald Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore at the start of the Self-reliance Day weekend.
Activists have long taken issue with the South Dakota monolith to previous US presidents, which was constructed on land sacred to the Sioux tribe.
Mr Trump will bring fighter jets and fireworks to Mount Rushmore on 3 July as his marketing tour continues.
The controversial trip comes amidst heightened racial tensions nationwide.
Mount Rushmore features the 60 ft (182 m) high faces of 4 United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
The monument was carved into the granite cliff in between 1927 and 1941.
But the land the memorial pushes – the Black Hills of South Dakota – was taken from the indigenous Lakota Sioux by the United States government in 1800 s.
Its carver was supposedly a white supremacist with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Some Native American activists state the land ought to be returned to the Sioux and the monument reduced. Others state indigenous groups must receive financial benefits fr