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Since it has been resurrected anyway.....

I went to Winstar last Thanksgiving. Saw a sign on one of the entrances so I returned my gun to my vehicle (my read of the Legalheat app was that all signs are enforceable in OK). I had not considered that they are a separate, sovereign nation. But given that they are, it does raise some interesting questions.

If the tribal police had become aware of my carry, assuming that is in fact illegal per their laws, and I managed to cross the tribal border back into the US, would the US government extradite me back to the reservation to face charges? Same goes for anything else that might be illegal under the tribe's laws but not under US or relevant state laws.

Someone mentioned up-thread that non-tribal members cannot be criminally charged by the tribe, but that they could have the state LEO's arrest you for violation of state laws. Does the state of OK set laws on tribal land? If so, then they aren't really sovereign, now are they. If not, then what state law would I have violated? This is similar to me robbing a store in Finland. As far as I know, it is not against US law to rob a store in Finland.

How does all this work on highways that cross sovereign native lands? Am I violating US law if I commit a crime on such highways (speeding, DUI, reckless driving, etc), or am I violating tribal law? Or do they get around this question entirely by ceding the land under the highway to the US and the respective state that they border.

It just seems like these places are sometimes sovereign, and sometimes not.