I grew up a short flight from the Republic of Lakota, so I saw them on a fairly regular basis. We made yearly trips out to Wounded Knee to remember the massacre, before celebrating the New Year in a cheerier place. They still maintain that and other historic monuments and reenactments in the old ways, but the majority of Lakota is just as modern as any other major nation in America. Pine Ridge is better than Las Vegas in my opinion for instance. You can go to dinner shows, take tours of the Bad Lands, go gambling, or just sit and lazy your way through the day at five star hotels. Pine Ridge knows how to make people who have money to spend feel real welcome.