Red Cloud Material things do not hold value to old Indians. To young Indians, yes, they do now, after school, etc. The movement back to the simplicity of the Indian Theology is a movement of Honesty. Indian Theology is tightly wound up in myth. Therefore do not expect a systematic, or final, explanation of their thoughts.
Myths live and grow and extend themselves.
This is the way Tribal Theology is handed from one generation to another. Systematic Theology attempts to take all mystery from religion. In doing this it destroys the Soul in its sectioning of the Body of Truth. Most of the above is gone from the Dakotah consciousness. But perceptive men are thinking about it again.