Native Land Conservancy land holdings

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The Native Land Conservancy is, in its own words, an Indigenous-led land conservation nonprofit whose board members come from a variety of Native American tribal communities. Its mailing address is in Mashpee, Massachusetts. It says its relationship with the earth is familial and that its mission is to preserve and restore healthy landscapes for all living things wherever possible.

Its Land Holdings page says the Conservancy holds title to more than 295 acres across 11 towns in Massachusetts, and also 8.5 acres on an island in Lake Superior in Wisconsin, a farm listed as Oshki Ikwewag, described elsewhere on its site as an Ojibwe women's farm. Together that is about 303.5 acres. The page lists 18 named holdings. The largest listed in Massachusetts are tracts of roughly 54 acres in Leverett and Hawley. It says that while landownership provides greater opportunities to care for the land, it understands its relationship to the land as familial.

The Conservancy describes its work as rescuing land through donation or title purchase, upholding conservation easements and tending to the land's needs, alongside cultural preservation. It also invites land donations and lists tax benefits to donors.

The acreage listed for the individual parcels adds to somewhat less than 295 (about 267 acres in Massachusetts, with one entry giving no acreage), so the larger figure is the Conservancy's own total. The page does not say which tribal nation each holding serves.

Good to know. The Conservancy is a nonprofit, not a tribal government. Its total of more than 295 Massachusetts acres is its own; the parcels it lists add up to about 267 acres.

Summarized with AI assistance from 4 sources and checked against their words; not yet reviewed by historians or by the nations. Report an error