Final thoughts about Four Souls

Is this a happy ending? Thinking about today's discussion over again, I now have the feeling that the ending of "Four Souls" is bittersweet. I think its great that they got their precious land, but at the same time, the forces of vengence (from Fleur) and importance of the land really take away from the meaning of ownership. Fleur loses her souls and obligations, like being a mother, because of the need to keep land. This importance makes the land more of an object of property thus giving success to the white developers who would want them to view land as something to be bought, sold, developed, traded, etc. This is a bittersweet ending because it leaves the natives looking more like those they are trying to keep the land away from while being happy with the little cultural autonomy that remains.