Bravo! Yes to all of this! As one who was also raised in a rural tribe, I applaud this.

To others in may be incomprehensible how the sense of us vs. them is ingrained in a small, rural community. In fact, my own parents and relatives of that generation, to this day, recount story after story of their glory days in high school. The mentality in their community never graduates from high school, regardless of the passing of decades.