The Wampanoag Common Lands project seeks to restore a 32-acre (13ha) former Catholic summer camp on the banks of the Muddy Pond in Kingston to something closer to what it might have looked like before European colonisation transformed it.
Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation down to size.
Volunteers in the Northeastern state of Massachusetts are working to restore native land to the condition it was in before white settlers arrived hundreds of years ago.
The Wampanoag Common Lands project is among efforts by tribes and other Native groups from the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwest seeking to repair lands altered by European colonization
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