No one OWNS land. That is the biggest flaw in modern society, this idea anyone owns land. I know the occupiers were no saints, but the occupiers of a few years ago on the left, which I generally agreed with, had their bad apples too.
Owning land is the main reason for the class division and rising inequality we are seeing exploding today.
I don't think this has much to do with "white privilege", unless you want to go further and say the entire founding of the US was white privilege.(all land was acquired through violence at some point in the past) It has more to do with a lack of knowledge of how to change the system, and a growing frustration of many folks in the rural west, much of it justified. Let's not point the finger at rural ranchers until we have walked a mile in their shoes. By the way, that free  range grass fed beef you picked up at New Seasons might have come from one of those ranches.