Hakeer wrote:Try pitching your tent 10 feet in front of the Clallam chief’s hut.
That would be rude. The natural individual liberty right to use land non-exclusively, which our remote ancestors exercised to survive for millions of years, does not give license for rudeness. Similarly, everyone is at liberty to walk down a public street, but it is rude to get in front of people and block their way, so people who respect each others' rights (doesn't include you) don't do that. That doesn't mean they have no liberty right to use the public street.
He would have told you to get your ass off his territory.
No he wouldn't. Unlike greedy, evil, privileged, parasitic filth who claim they own others' rights to liberty, the Clallam chief never claimed it was
his territory.
He didn’t “own” the land. He just claimed it as his territory.
No he did not. The territory was the community's, not his personally. And brute, animal territoriality is quite different from property in land: animals are not obliged to respect others' territories, which the claimants must defend against challengers themselves. The Clallam were well aware, as you are not, that their claim could be overturned at any time by superior force.
So you are simply makin' $#!+ up again.
But you had plenty of unclaimed land farther down the river.
And, contrary to your claims, the Clallam, like most hunter-gatherers the world over, welcomed peaceful visitors (i.e., not greedy, evil scum who intended forcibly to remove their liberty to use the land they occupied by dint of government-issued and -enforced privilege).
Let me give you another clue about public land. My property literally borders Washington state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) land. It goes on for miles and miles of “unoccupied” land (as you would call it). You may not pitch your tent ANYWHERE over there.
There are various kinds of parks, nature reserves, watershed protection areas, etc. where people's activities are restricted, but the great majority of public land can be used by the public non-exclusively and non-destructively.