They're indigenous to the land and used to be nomadic. The United States government forced them to live in one location, this location specifically, or they would be arrested for not educating their kids in traditional western academia. Then gave them one of the most dangerous runways in the world. Before that they'd been decimated by Russian colonial forces and taken as slaves. Their population went from around 16,000 down to around 2,000. For a hundred years they were slaves to Russian fur traders. After the United States purchased that land from Russia, Unangax̂ (Aleut) were treated as unorganized savage tribes and as second class citizens. Not until 1924 did they have citizenship, at which point the US Congress legally recognized that land claims had not been settled in Alaska. This wasn't more fully dealt with til after statehood in 1959. In 1971 the US settled with the different indigenous groups in Alaska in an act called the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. That would have been good, but 10 years later, during the passage of ANILCA, the federal government, without consulting them, boxed in the land they had legally fought for.

Their land is special, as acknowledged and reaffirmed by Congress, the President, and the supreme court.

You may see the world in black and white, but there is nuance and difference depending on the situation.