Today's land claims are not the end of the story after all.
This was the subject of a successful land claim in 2009.
Local residents like to press their earlier land claim because history is important here.
But he noted that no land claims have been made in court.
The town, school, and federal government are among the parties fighting the land claim.
To date no land claims were settled in the area.
It set the price of the land claim to range $2.50 to $5.00 per acre.
Some of the land claims have now been filed in state courts.
Surrounding land claims could not be acquired until 1972, however.
"If the Government doesn't give us our land claim, then we'll keep on fighting," he said.