Dave, I'd hate to turn this into a "racial issue," but you see, the Sioux are an indigenous peoples, who have suffered quite the amount of White racism in their history.  I'm trying to understand why you would go to such lengths to irrationally undermine this indigenous peoples protest.  Failure to see reason in a plight such as this - and perhaps even compassion - reeks of the kind of intolerance (bigotry) often associated with racism.