On the reservation I’m from, up until the late 90s or so, there weren’t enough cops.
So, if you could fight off the cop that was trying to arrest you, they couldn’t arrest you.
So most of the times, rather than fight, they would just ask the person, “Hey, do you want to come in and get this taken care of?” And if they said, “No,” they would just be like, “Alright, I’m writing it up, and it’s gonna come out of your money”
That money is not money you get for being an Indian.
Our tribe has a lot of land, and since there’s nothing else to do, it gets leased out to cattle ranchers. And so every year, many people in the tribe get a few hundred bucks, and that’s where the money for paying their tickets or whatever would come from.
On the reservation I’m from, up until the late 90s or so, there weren’t enough cops.
So, if you could fight off the cop that was trying to arrest you, they couldn’t arrest you.
So most of the times, rather than fight, they would just ask the person, “Hey, do you want to come in and get this taken care of?” And if they said, “No,” they would just be like, “Alright, I’m writing it up, and it’s gonna come out of your money”
That money is not money you get for being an Indian.
Our tribe has a lot of land, and since there’s nothing else to do, it gets leased out to cattle ranchers. And so every year, many people in the tribe get a few hundred bucks, and that’s where the money for paying their tickets or whatever would come from.