Having driven through Pine Ridge a number of times, I agree with your statement-that Res is a third world country..
I and a friend were driving through an area of North Dakota some years back coming back from a hunting trip when we found ourselves in the middle of trash all over the highway, junk thrown in the ditches, wind blown garbage everywhere, and then we drove by a dumping area totally overfilled with all kinds of trash. It woke me up. Nobody on the reservation cared about how they were treating “mother earth”.
I've hunted Pine Ridge which requires you to get a license from the reservation. The poverty in that area is tremendous.
They do have one small casino, but it is not very nice.
Of course, all the schools were modern, state-of-the-art buildings and looked totally out of place.
Yes but compare that with the "old ways" that these so called leaders want their people to return to... a lifetime of shifting about in extended family groups searching for food and water, seldom wearing more than a loincloth in summer and always on the lookout for other indians in order to either attack and take what little provisions they may have or to defend yourself from attack. Not much of a life if you ask me. Just like all liberals, I'm certain the "leaders" only intend such life for the little indians.
As for me, I'd take the trailer and monthly government check. Then I'd get an education and if I had to, find a job off the reservation but return on the weekends to hunt, fish, shoot my guns and generally enjoy the outdoors.
A return to enforcing laws against alcohol sales to indians would do a lot to help also.