It's not constitutional, they're still under federal and state law. Tribal law wouldn't be able to supercede those.

But yeah. Some of the reservation areas are quite remote so they handle a lot of things on their own.

There's still over 500 federally recognized tribes. With tribal membership comes obligation to follow tribal law.

I honestly don't know how that applies to others doing things on their land; mostly they get turned over to the state or the feds, I think.

I also don't know if any of them have a specific law about wearing traditional dress on reservation land. Maybe they all just keep it to requesting respect. Like I said, you can't just wear an eagle feather if you didn't earn the feather. And you can't just wear an eagle feather if you don't have that cultural exemption either.

It's no different than some yahoo from a rival town wearing a letterman's jacket, with a letter they didn't earn from your town. Sure, you have the legal right to be that asshole, but you have the right to the beatdown that follows too because you're being deliberately provocative and confrontational.

That letter has meaning. It's an award. Everybody fucking knows it.

Same with a purple heart. Same with a medal of honor.

It's no different.

And any white person would raise all sorts of hell about someone disrespecting those emblems. But they want to hem and haw over rights over feathers, certain pelts, and whale bone and what not.

And those it actually IS illegal to have in your possession. You can't just wear them because you want to.