Our mission is to keep the public informed about time-sensitive opportunities to participate in preservation efforts for ancient Indigenous sites. That’s how we win.
Did you know that most ancient Indigenous sites get destroyed without any public notice or debate at all? This is done on purpose. Often, it is illegal.
This is usually caused by financial fraud. We are here to end that practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Nayyag Preserve was founded by a group who met working together to save a 10,000 year old Indigenous archeological site in Northampton, MA from destruction by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation in 2020.
This ancient site was preserved – for now – much thanks to actions taken by our 50,000 person strong email list of supporters, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, and the Narragansett.
Together, we won. And we can do it again – with your help.
Below, sign up for the low-traffic Nayyag Urgent Action List and help save the next ancient Indigenous site targeted for destruction.
You will be alerted about rare, time-sensitive opportunities when the public can actually act with effect. There are not many, but they are critical. We have to be ready.
Please make sure you click the confirmation email, which may go to your Spam folder.
Recent posts and public discussion forums:
Federal rule that saved the Nayyag site is being rewritten
On July 24, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation voted 16 to 5 to advance a rewrite of Section 106, the law that forces agencies to look at what they are about to destroy and to consult tribes and the public first. It is the process that saved the 10,000 year old site in…
Help Save the Pine Barrens
From our good friend Meg Sheehan: End the Destruction! End Deforestation! End the Desecration of Indigenous History! End the Threats to Our Drinking Water! Led by The Community Land and Water Coalition we will rally to Stop Sand Mining and Deforestation in Southeastern Massachusetts! – Join us, Turnout Matters! Date: Saturday, July 22, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Location: Outside…
Now that we won against the Commonwealth and temporarily saved the 10,000 year old Native American village, it is TIME TO GO BIGGER so that we can preserve these sites forever
We need your help. Documentary filmmaker Tyler Chase has captured HUNDREDS OF HOURS of interviews with leaders from tribes including the Lakota, Mashpee, Narragansett, Wampanoag, prominent archeologists, and many other Indigenous experts. They explain on film, “the ongoing cultural erasure of Native Americans by outdated policies, mislead institutions, hiding of evidence and destruction of precious…
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