The Native Land Conservancy is an Indigenous-led land conservation nonprofit. Our board members come from a variety of Native American tribal communities. Our relationship with the earth is one that is familial and seeks to preserve land for future generations.
As I rounded the corner beyond the condos, I found myself in a section of the river where there was no sign of the modern world. No cars or houses, docks or boats, and I imagine this is the world my ancestors would have seen. Pristine wilderness, the water lapping softly at the side of my canoe and the cattail, bulrush, and phragmite bending, gently in the breeze.
The discovery of an ancient network of stones aligned to lunar cycles including a large monument resembling a turtle led a Western Massachusetts woman to rescue the land to preserve the remarkable work done by the original people of the land.
“They were placed there with intention, with deliberation, wisdom, pragmatism, prayer and ceremony that is beyond my comprehension and experience,” she said Sarah Kohler who gifted the 7 acre parcel to the Native Land Conservancy.
In May a group of NLC tribal friends toured some of the 440 acres of property held by the Dennis Conservation Land Trust. The Native Land Conservancy holds Cultural Respect Easements on all of the DCLT lands.
