If you want to talk about Indian properties, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. There are both "reservations" (which are tribal lands set aside for specific groups of pre-European-indigenous peoples) and "nations" which refers to a particular section of a state where both Indians and non-Indians may live and hold property.
I grew up in the Chickasaw Nation capital, which is a small county seat (er, the principal city of a county, of which there are 77 in our state) in southeastern Oklahoma. The nation extends over several counties, and basically what that means is this:
Land belonging to the Chickasaws is under their legal jurisdiction, so if a crime is committed there, their own police investigate (and they call in help if needed). They have their own taxes and their own budget. And they even have their own license plates. (The license plates aren't vanity ones-- the money from the car tag really goes to their government, not the regular state government.) This goes to pay for historical programs, the museum, the hospital, and lots of other things, some of which are available for everyone and some of which aren't. My dad has been trying to get me to go work for them for some time, in fact, because their benefits are just kick-ass.
Anyways, interspersed between all of these Indian properties are plenty of Oklahomans whose families moved in *after* the land run, and there's no real legal impediment to both existing together, any more than between two contiguous city districts.
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Date: 2008-01-31 06:54 pm (UTC)I grew up in the Chickasaw Nation capital, which is a small county seat (er, the principal city of a county, of which there are 77 in our state) in southeastern Oklahoma. The nation extends over several counties, and basically what that means is this:
Land belonging to the Chickasaws is under their legal jurisdiction, so if a crime is committed there, their own police investigate (and they call in help if needed). They have their own taxes and their own budget. And they even have their own license plates. (The license plates aren't vanity ones-- the money from the car tag really goes to their government, not the regular state government.) This goes to pay for historical programs, the museum, the hospital, and lots of other things, some of which are available for everyone and some of which aren't. My dad has been trying to get me to go work for them for some time, in fact, because their benefits are just kick-ass.
Anyways, interspersed between all of these Indian properties are plenty of Oklahomans whose families moved in *after* the land run, and there's no real legal impediment to both existing together, any more than between two contiguous city districts.