Yes, they're hard to understand - having honor and pride and so forth..
I didn't see a lot of honor or pride. I saw a lot of drunk Indians living in squalor with nothing to do and nowhere to go. Dignity wasn't on the menu.
Such is the fate of all the victims of america, memphis - the Natives, the blacks, the hispanics, the poor whites. They're all to be chewed up and consumed.
However you have to admit the fact that these incredibly abused and victimized people are showing an impressive level of pride in refraining - despite their great need - from accepting the absurd pittance offered them by the American government.
A proper solution to the Indian question in the Dakotas - one which would show proper respect and a realistic recognition of what was done to them - would be seizure and return of the Black Hills and whatever other territories they deemed indispensable to their culture, in addition to a massive financial reparation.