Agreed. 
With respect to the OP, I’m most familiar with the Eastern Cherokee. In my experience with that nation, most people these days are just like any other Americans, trying to do the best for themselves and their families, and trying to use the political process as much as possible to do it. In fact, I’d say that Cherokee history is unique among the Indian tribes for the manner in which they adapted to and embraced the American political system — including writing a Constitution modeled on the American one. Of course, they were betrayed repeatedly and aggregiously by the government they emulated, but that’s another matter.