Yea, but the federal government recognized it and recorded it in a treaty so the prior “ownership” is moot.
With todays administration and bureaucracy, if it was populated with demons, like Churchill’s remark in WWII, I’d probably “be disposed to put in a good word for them in the house of representatives”...
Admittedly. I’d side with the Indians on this one. But I do get tired of that “sacred lands” crap. Everyplace an Indian ever took a dump is supposed to be sacred ground these days.