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Welcome to the Niamuck Land Trust

We are an Indigenous women-led land trust working to purchase, preserve, and protect sacred ancestral lands on

Long Island.

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The Niamuck Land Trust works to purchase, preserve, and protect Shinnecock lands to ensure Indigenous stewardship for generations to come. We honor ancestral knowledge, safeguard sacred sites, and build collective power through land-based healing and sovereignty. Join us in restoring balance between people, tradition, and Mother Earth.

About Us

The Niamuck Land Trust (NLT) was founded in November 2021 by members of the Shinnecock Nation Graves Protection Warrior Society. Composed permanently and solely of enrolled members of the Shinnecock Nation, the board members of NLT are committed to working to purchase, preserve, and protect burial sites, and other culturally significant sites sacred to the Shinnecock Nation and their (our) neighboring Indigenous communities. With a strong base on cultural education of and for the Shinnecock community, NLT was founded as an entity with the ability to raise funds and other resources to facilitate land acquisitions and continued stewardship of these sites as they are acquired for preservation, ceremonial, and educational purposes. The NLT is a 501(c)3 organization.

Our Purpose

The Shinnecock Indian Nation is one of the oldest self-governing tribes in the State of New York and was formally recognized by the United States federal government Copy aas the 565th federally recognized tribe on October 1, 2010. Historically, the language of the Shinnecock people is an eastern Algonquian dialect and they have owned and occupied their aboriginal homelands in and around the Town of Southampton on the eastern end of Long Island from time immemorial. In their Algonquian language, the Shinnecock name roughly translates into English as "people of the stony shore.”

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