All of this goes back to the General Crimes Act which was introduced into law aaaaallll the way back in **1817**. In the United States, tribal police have jurisdiction over Native peoples on Native lands, but in many places, they don’t have the jurisdictional authority to, for example, charge a non-Native person who is assaulting or robbing someone on Native lands. For those unfamiliar with the ways that tribal policing operates, this depiction isn’t too far from reality. As a tribal cop, he’s trying to do his best to do right for the community in the face of underfunding (his cruiser, “Redbone One,” has a broken radio, and his replacement cruiser is on backorder), managing his own moral compass, and he has to take shit from the town police. Cheese is baffled by this, but Big tells Cheese that they’re on a mission to only fight the ‘real’ bad guys, and as the episode unfolds, we get a better idea of what Big means by this.Īs the ride-along proceeds, we discover that Big’s job is pretty thankless. Although Big catches Bucky in a stolen car, he lets him go so long as Bucky promises to return the car and stop scaring people with his statues. Eventually, while tracking down a stolen vehicle, Big and Cheese find out that the culprit behind the thefts and the statues is none other than well-meaning townie Bucky, played by Cherokee actor Wes Studi, the treasured, award-winning Indigenous performer recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Oscars (and, most importantly, my mom’s favorite actor). Later, the two try to suss out who has been stealing metal from the scrapyard and leaving mysterious copper statues around town.
First, Big takes Cheese out to a field where, in an after-credit sequence of a previous episode, he discovered a pile of abandoned fish heads (“Bigfoot activity,” Big explains).
So … is this where Cheese was while the rest of the crew was out visiting Uncle Brownie? Anyway, shortly into their jaunt, the two find themselves on the trail of several mysterious happenings in town. This week we follow along while Big takes Cheese out in his cruiser for a ride-along. What do Wes Studi, goofy buddy-cop procedural antics, vengeful monsters, and the band Redbone have in common? To be totally transparent, all of these are things I love, and they also just so happen to be in this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs.
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