&gt;It&#x27;s only right that the federal government own the land<p>there is no right or wrong here. The current situation is just the result of the most recent applications of force on that issue - with Indians in particular loosing in those &quot;applications of force&quot;, and until bigger force gets involved it will stay about the same. That is how human race has so far been managing the surface of this planet, or any other resource...