The gateway to Mount Rushmore has erupted in controversy involving the mayor, the Native American community and a hotelier who banned “Natives” from a Rapid City property following a shooting – culminating in a federal lawsuit.
It all began last weekend when a teenage male was shot in one of the rooms at the Grand Gateway Hotel and transported to the hospital with serious injuries. The hotel, with 132 rooms on North Lacrosse Street in Rapid City, is owned and run by mother-and-son team Connie and Nick Uhre.
