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Better than drilling on it. You can't go back and undo history. It's happened. It's a shit take to just show it was someone else's land. It always is. We are all living in someone else's house and something else's environment, so I'm and so forth.
Yes we can be better in the future and should aim for that but just screaming that it's all crap is really derivative of every history of everything.
Its a shit response to say that everybody has had land stolen. Especially when those peoples are still alive. So if we are to be better, then we need to acknowledge that there is still justice undone. And again these native peoples are still here, they aren't gone. Native Hawaiians are actively being poisoned due to the US military's ignorance and neglect of their own infrastructure. Democrats aren't talking about that are they? Hawaii was illegally annexed but I'm sure Democrats vacation there just as much as Republicans. They are still fighting for rights to their land and anyone in Congress or the White House would say they can go fuck themselves.
Yes I'm actually fully in agreement that native Hawaiians are being pushed into extinction but that's part of the now that needs to be fixed. Actions have to be taken for the current issues and there may and very usually is history to navigate within because it does matter but you can't just ask for history to change we need to figure out solutions for now.
And yeah rich people of all parties aren't going to be particularly interested and it's obvious our government doesn't work right. Your original point that national parks aren't progressive is bad because even though stolen they are protected wild lands for hundreds of years. The new deal was a huge help to failing farms that are literally needed to feed people. We are facing inequality of massive magnitudes and climate change that is going to cause farming issues of the future, and climate refugees and economic refugees. We have to work with that now, looking at what the future we see from our choices with enough remembrance of the past but not clinging to it.
Unless you just want to be angry.
Edit: also my point is that eventually no matter what someone else will take your land whether they are your progeny or your replacement. It's never your land or your stuff. It's just temporary.
They aren't progressive. You can't forage on them, even if you are native. Its just for the white bourgois to enjoy. They are not protected for hundreds of years. Trump was able to sell some off to oil and natural gas. Biden didn't reverse it or stop it from continuing. You frame me as a child throwing a tantrum. "Unless you just want to be angry" Fuck off. If you aren't angry, then you aren't actually affected by it. We should be angry.