What it reveals is that no one people “owns” any piece of land. So the ideas of natives being owed anything back after losing lands through wars or selling it off to others, is ridiculous.
There were others there before them that they either took over from or acquired it through goods/trade/purchase treaties.
One thing progressives are sure of: Jewish people and white people don’t own any land.
There is at least one exception: the Cherokee.
The broader Cherokee removal from their southeastern homelands (primarily in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina) occurred through the Trail of Tears (1838–1839), a forced relocation under the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The controversial Treaty of New Echota (1835), signed by a small minority faction (the “Treaty Party”) without the approval of the elected Cherokee leadership or most of the tribe. It ceded all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River in exchange for land in Indian Territory and payment. The U.S. Senate ratified it narrowly.
Most Cherokees, led by Principal Chief John Ross, strongly opposed it and fought legally (winning a Supreme Court case, which President Jackson ignored).
In 1838, U.S. troops and state militias rounded up thousands of Cherokees into stockades, often with little notice, allowing minimal possessions. They were then marched or transported westward under harsh conditions (disease, exposure, starvation, and violence).
Estimates suggest 15,000–16,000 Cherokees were removed, with roughly 4,000 or more deaths during the journey