Actually, you are mistaken, we do own the state, you and I and all other Alaska residents, collectively, though the State of Alaska. Chugach State Park and the Alaska State Capitol Buildings belong to you and me and the rest of Alaska's citizens, in the exact same way that  Alaska's' Subsurface Mineral Estate belongs to us...because we are citizens of Alaska.  You say: "No where in the Alaska constitution does the it say 'the state belongs to the people'." That's true, but it is also true that nowhere in the Alaska Constitution does it say that the "Mineral Resources Belong to the People".  Don't believe me?  Go find it, it ain't there. What you *will* find in the Alaska Constitution and in the  Alaska Statehood Act are numerous references to the Mineral resources being reserved to the State of Alaska and administered by the State of Alaska. We, the people of Alaska own the mineral resources, because the State of Alaska owns the Mineral Resources, and the State is us.