text: The ATHNA people owned the land before the Feds and the State took it from them.  Their "selection" of this land is a legal fiction.which pretends that no one owned the land before the State or Federal folks took it.  This is a product of the outdated and generally repudiated Doctrine of Discovery which claimed that colonial powers could claim any land they "discovered" on the North and South American continents if the inhabitants were not Christian.  Whether Whites came into this area via this particular trail or not is irrelevant as it traversed Native lands.