Yes, they should certainly find a convenient Israel gunsmith in the Dakota Territory in the 1860s and ask him for advice.
How are they even going to manufacture the gun, let alone the ammunition? As I recall none of the Native American nations even developed smelting or produced their own iron or steel.
As a side note, at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls at least one matchlock(!) rifle was found among the weapons of the dead, which could only have come from Spanish conquistadors and which was still in working order, so a case can at least be made that if such an ancient weapon was still working @235 years after they went out of production the far more robust AK-47 could be depended on.
So are the Lakota getting one gun, thousands, thousands plus plenty of ammo and user instruction manuals and spare parts and...
How are they even going to manufacture the gun, let alone the ammunition? As I recall none of the Native American nations even developed smelting or produced their own iron or steel.
As a side note, at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls at least one matchlock(!) rifle was found among the weapons of the dead, which could only have come from Spanish conquistadors and which was still in working order, so a case can at least be made that if such an ancient weapon was still working @235 years after they went out of production the far more robust AK-47 could be depended on.
So are the Lakota getting one gun, thousands, thousands plus plenty of ammo and user instruction manuals and spare parts and...