The community plans to restore the area and work on conservation using a combination of traditional and scientific knowledge.
The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans plans to purchase a 351-acre property near Monument Mountain in Stockbridge.
The Indigenous community plans to purchase a 351-acre property near Monument Mountain in Stockbridge. The project is one of 109 climate resiliency projects awarded a total of $31.5 million. She added the initiative goes a step further from so-called “cultural easements,” which are where an Indigenous community is allowed to collect or harvest plants but the land still belongs to an agency or a private landowner. Indigenous ownership of the land shifts the power dynamics and gives the community full agency to preserve and care for the land, she said.
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