Use the excerpt to answer the question.
“The question presented is whether an Indian tribe’s police
officer has authority to detain temporarily and to search a
non-Indian on a public right-of-way that runs through an
Indian reservation. The search and detention, we assume,
took place based on a potential violation of state or federal
law prior to the suspect’s transport to the proper nontribal
authorities for prosecution. We have previously noted that a
tribe retains inherent sovereign authority to address
“conduct [that] threatens or has some direct effect on . . .
the health or welfare of the tribe.” We believe this statement
of law governs here. And we hold the tribal officer
possesses the authority at issue.”
According to this excerpt from the Supreme Court case
United States v. Cooley (2021), what legal precedent was
established for tribal sovereignty by this ruling?
Tribal areas are coequal with states, thus giving
Indigenous Americans the same power to tax and police.
Tribal areas are not foreign nations but wards or
domestic dependent nations of the U.S.
Tribal authority to police extends beyond Indigenous
Americans to all U.S. citizens who might be present on
tribal land.
States do not have jurisdiction to prosecute crimes in
areas previously promised to Indigenous Americans
despite legal traditions of state control.
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