Ah respect. This is what the Lakota girl wanted, remember? She didn't care what Joe's story was about the necklace, saying that the very act of him wearing it was disrespectful. The irony is that her unwillingness to hear Joe's story about his friend Sherman, the necklace maker, was what was truly disrespectful. After hearing about it, Sherman decided to tell anyone who would make such a demand to... well, you remember what he said. Sometimes a cry for respect can be disrespectful, and the ongoing dialectic is anything but unifying.