Comments by "Dean Firnatine" (@deanfirnatine7814) on "Why the Comanches Don't Have Reservations w/S.C. Gwynne | Joe Rogan" video.

  1. It is "extremely complex" especially when you get into tribal status in Oklahoma which is so different than most other states and it can also vary within a state depending on the local Tribe and local Government's relationship. Where I come from the local Irish and Scottish settlers got along great with the local Tribe to such an extent that a couple of times it came close to armed conflict between them (Tribe + settlers) against the US military. Today the tribal police are given full authority by the Sheriff off reservation and Sheriff is as well on reservation, when a crime happens it is whoever is closest, long time Tribal chair woman says "we are one community", we grew up viewing it as all of us against the "outsiders".
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  2. The urban American has one stereotype of Natives like they have one stereotype of rural Whites. There is an interesting documentary about Wind River in Wyoming and a lot of the people there were really offended at how Hollywood and the media portray life there, almost all of them were like "its not that bad, its a nice place but with problems like everywhere". I grew up in a mixed White Native community where the long time Tribal Chair women always said "we are ONE community". The average urban White I talked to is shocked when I tell them things like Native Americans serve in the military, police and fire service at a higher rate than any ethnic group in America and they are shocked when I point out in my community the Tribe financially helps out things like local schools, they are not poverty stricken, they are loggers and ranchers and business owners like everyone else in the area.
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  3. I almost became a tribal officer for your tribe but took a job with Clark County instead, less of a move.
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  4. Not all Reservations are the same and they have different relationships with neighboring governments, where I grew up the Tribal police answer calls off the reservations if they are closest and the local county Sheriff answers calls on the reservation if they are closest. The tribe helps out the local community in lots of ways besides jobs such as school money, scholarships, charity for the poor etc. the "retired" Tribal Chair Women always said "we are ONE community" and really we always were from the time early Irish and Scottish settlers fleeing English oppression settled there and were helped by the local tribe, then when the soldiers came for them to move them to a far away reservation many fled to local ranches and homesteads who were often married to tribal members or another family member was and they hid them until the military just took the few they found and left, in one incident when the military came to get a certain band the men of a local town met them with rifles in hand and told them the tribe had always been good to them and to go away and not come back and they left not wanting a armed confrontation with settlers. Native Americans were treated terribly but 90% of the time it was the government, settlers and Indians often looked after each other, I know a story in my area of a tribe looking after a widow settler with a half dozen kids when her husband died.
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