The inhabitants of the Lakota reservation were once the famous Sioux, proud warriors who were the protagonists of many films, the greatest embodiment of the figure and myth of the Native American. Today they live a desolate life. “Alcoholism, apathy arise from a lack of hope in the present,” says Tasha Mosseau, a Native American rights activist. “Very few – he adds – will vote in these elections for a government that has locked up and abandoned our people”.
