Indian giver

[snopes]

Comment: A guy and his wife are traveling with an rv ( travel trailer) and
something happens causing him to lose control and wreck. He and his wife
are okay after the accident, but the trailer has smashed open, and all of
thier belongings are strewn along the highway. The truck they used to pull
the trailer is unharmed. This accident occurs on an Indian reservation.
When the highway partolman arrives, and sees them them picking up their
belongings and putting them into their truck he asks them to stop. He
states that since the road is in an Indian reservation, the Idians have
rights to all of their belongings , and tells them to stop picking up
thier stuff.

If he's on Indian reservation property, I don't see why a state trooper would be telling him that. If anything, the highway trooper wouldn't have juridiction over somthing that's on an Indian reservation. I don't know how the laws work on this, but I think this would fall under federalism. Techniclly, Indian reservation property is considered federal land not state land. I would also guess that the Indians themselves make most of their own laws like setting their own speed limits, having their own troopers, etc. However, they may have limitations like whether or not they can set up unfair speed traps like local governments do in the US.

so if I was this guy I would pick up my stuff and go anyway. If the Indians want my stuff that bad, they can sue me for it in federal court

[forceflow15]

Tribes can determine most laws that are enforced on their reservations. However, most tribes have cross-deputized the troopers of surrounding jurisdictions, for the same reasons that other communities do so.

Back to the OP: This is crap, because Native American Pre-Columbians do not get automatic title to everything on their reservations. Just like I cannot take something that falls on my lawn, simply because it so fell, NAPCs (of which I am one as well) cannot claim property that is on their land.l