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.
Right over the So Dakota line, south of the Res, is White Clay, NE. A tiny town built soley on selling the Sioux beer and liquor..