Here in New Mexico it is the same. The Navajo tribe, for example, have a great deal of income, their leaders are rich, but little of the wealth ever trickles down to poor tribal members. People are the same whatever their race. It corrupts both Tribal Leaders and Our Great White Fathers in Washington. Human Nature has not changed since The Creation.
All people desire the freedom to do what they wish, and a piece of the Earth to call their own.
THIS is the unspoken possibility that the Politically Correct and the Indian Tribes do not want us to consider, because it would shatter forever their self-image of themselves as Victims of the Evil White Man. But it can never be considered, let alone discovered, if the truth is systematically covered up whenever a new find comes to light. There were as many cultures and belief systems as there were tribes, each with their own values and way of life. Historically, many tribes that were smaller in number or more peaceful were displaced by warloving, nomadic newcomers. The Paiute naturally had to fight and kill off these foreign-looking natives, to gain control of the land.