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I looked some more online after posting this and did not find much. One point that was made several places was the they are not really "sovereign". The land is technically owned by the US gov't and only reserved for the tribe using the same legal framework as is used to give Gov't land for military bases. Power given to a more or less appointed tribal council and a great many claims of pretty extreme corruption and abuse of power. Tribal council fills the roles of legislative, executive, and judicial in most cases. They can shut down any business by a vote. Pretty crazy to think about it being within the US and no wonder there is so little economic development on reservations.
550 Reservations in the US, so that has to be a HUGE amount of territory. The Navajo reservation has to be larger than quite a few states.
In one of the later episodes they caught a non-tribal member and they called the Sheriff to take custody of him.
One of the most interesting things is getting locked up for 8 hours seems to be the punishment for almost everything.
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