Yes, but it is also about realising what white people have and what native Americans have, and that white people are so much better off with everything they need but native Americans struggle with simply getting to the next day.

I knew that none of them was going to college. Not one of them.

All of the guys on our team has iPods and cell phones and PSPs and three pairs of blue jeans and ten shirts and mothers and fathers who went to church and had good jobs.

The writer presents poverty in line a lion through repetition. This can be seen when he writes, “I knew that none of them was going to college. Not one of them. And he repeats “I know that.” He repeated I know to get across the point that Indians are less fortunate than white people in America.