I'm a native of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, and we have a few white cops.
We are not going to like you, not for a good while. If you can act like a good guy, you may get respect. Getting pulled over by a white cop is unnerving - you feel like government is putting its boot on your neck. When your pulled over by another native at least you think, 'Well I doubt this has anything to do with race'.
I live off the reservation atm, and whenever a cop gets behind me I'm probably getting pulled over - and I have to wonder if it is my 'Native Pride' sticker.
Anyway, if you are a good guy, and courteous you'd fit in. But if you come out trying to slap a lot of tickets and arrests, trying to the big man, you aren't going to make friends.
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I'm a native of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, and we have a few white cops.
We are not going to like you, not for a good while. If you can act like a good guy, you may get respect. Getting pulled over by a white cop is unnerving - you feel like government is putting its boot on your neck. When your pulled over by another native at least you think, 'Well I doubt this has anything to do with race'.
I live off the reservation atm, and whenever a cop gets behind me I'm probably getting pulled over - and I have to wonder if it is my 'Native Pride' sticker.
Anyway, if you are a good guy, and courteous you'd fit in. But if you come out trying to slap a lot of tickets and arrests, trying to the big man, you aren't going to make friends.
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