[Lucas McCain]

The land that the reservations are on, at least here in Minnesota are not owned by the US Government. They are owned by the tribe. When the treaty was made and signed the land was CEDED by the US govt. and given to the indians in the 19th century. Each tribal member was given title to 40 acres of land. This land was not even supposed to be taxed, but it was and then sold off to settlers for back taxes. Now today in the 21st century if you own indian land that was purchased for back taxes, you are going to have a terrible time getting a clear and clean title to the land.
The tribes have been known to go to a city or town off the reservation and purchase property. That property becomes tribal land just like the reservation. They can do what they want because the property becomes part of and under the jurisdiction of the tribe and they don't have go by Zoning laws. Mostly they just build casinos. This fight has been going on in our courts for close to 50 years now. The problem is that when the treaties were made a lot of them were written by Captains and Lieutenants who didn't know what they were doing. To my knowledge not one Secretary of State or Secretary of war had anything to do with negotiating a treaty. Which was a norm when drafting a treaty with any other nation. They did some stupid things and made impossible promises.