How would you describe Pawnee resistance to oppression?

“[The Pawnee] were…promised that teachers, farmers, and blacksmiths [would be] sent to live among them so [they] could learn the ways of the white people. The government, as well as the missionary societies, supported this plan for it was generally believed [their] only chance for survival was the adoption of white ways and eventual assimilation into the dominant society…but the [Pawnee] had no intention of changing their customs or their lifestyle. The white visitors never seemed able to
comprehend the tenacity with which the Pawnees would cling to their own culture.”