In my experience, it's complicated, convoluted and extremely inconsistent. As far as hunting and fishing goes, I think you are pretty safe following ODWC and .fed regs and having the right licenses and stamps.
Reservations and Indian Territory were created through the Indian Removal Act and the ideas of Manifest Destiny. As time went on, settlers began to trickle into Indian Territory and lobbied for the open settlement of it. The Government began to a take the “excess” lands out West from tribes and opened them up for the Land Run. As time went on the idea of the State of Oklahoma came about and out came the Allotment Act. The Act split up communal tribal lands and split them amongst members, as well as the Dawes Act. However because of previous treaties with the 5 tribes the state lost jurisdiction of their territories and members with McGirt. Does this affect you? No unless you’re tribal member OR are doing something illegal in tribal territory. As far as hunting goes there are compacts with the state and tribes to allow non-members to hunt and fish within their territories as long as they have valid state hunting and fishing licenses. It is a lot more complicated than this but that scratches the main points.
It’s definitely complicated. Indian law is a specialized area of the law for a reason—there’s a lot of interplay among state, federal, and tribal laws that has been messy for over 200 years and doesn’t show any signs of becoming any less complicated any time soon.
Yes to your permits unless otherwise posted (like everywhere else). Again there are tribal compacts with the state that allow this.
Some tribes became so corrupted that the feds now run the LE agency and oversee the tribal affairs. We have one in our area.
Not minerals in Osage County. You only own the top 12” of the property. If minerals like rocks are on the surface, you can’t disturb them without a permit from the tribe. SCOTUS recently affirmed this.
