The Lakota didn’t accepted the treaty is because they would be destroyed if they didn't.
ALL tribes receive millions and millions of dollars each year for education, welfare and medical support. But the Indians and the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) are allowed BY LAW to discriminate against non-indians. AND they do! This is the reason why the indians fail so terribly in educating their children in their indian run schools. They fail in health care in their indian run health care facilities. They fail in housing because of their indian and communistic run housing programs.
The LAkota are located on Pine Ridge Reservation. This vast area is some of the most productive agricultural land in South Dakota. BUT the Lakota refuse to farm the land! They also refuse to use the land as range land for buffalo and cattle. This is the same land across the Nebraska state line that is very productive with a great school system, health system, etc.
The poverty conditions found on the reservation Lakota are caused by their corrupt tribal system. The US government has given the Lakota billions of dollars over the years. By law the Lakota and other Indian groups ARE NOT required to maintain financial records and the US government cannot audit the financial records to determine if the tax dollars GIVEN to the Lakota are actually used to help the Lakota!
Money down a rat hole!
Why should we walk a red road together. Why not a black road or a white road? How about a non-racist road? Are you calling the Lakota red men? The you agree with the Washington Redskins name tag?
If would be hard because of how political and corrupt it all is...but, IMHO, it needs doing to put all of this BS to rest permanently.
The red road is a reference to a pathway that is positive in life and has nothing to do with the racial aspects of it, as in if you are in recovery from alcoholism, you begin walking the “red road.”