1. Sign the Pledge.
You can make the Pledge at any time, well in advance of selling your home. It’s a commitment of conscience, not a contract — the Pledge is not legally binding.
What if you could set right a historical injustice, starting in your own backyard?
Long before your street had a name, the land beneath your home belonged to Native people. For the Pocasset and many other tribes, that land was taken through dishonored treaties, land deeds written in English, and eminent domain.
The Native Land Reparation Pledge Project offers a simple, personal way to respond. When you sell your home, you donate 1% or more of the sale price to the tribe whose land you lived on. No paperwork beyond a pledge. No legal obligation. Just a commitment to acknowledge the past and do something about it.
Native land reparation involves efforts to address historical injustice from colonization, forced displacement, cultural genocide, and other forms of oppression. It seeks to amplify the voices of Indigenous communities and advance the cause of justice and reconciliation for past wrongs committed against them.
Lewis Randa, Founder,
Native Land Reparation Pledge Project
Why this matters
Every property in America sits on land that was once Native land. In southeastern New England, the Pocasset and neighboring tribes lost their territories not through fair exchange but through treaties that were broken, deeds written in a language they were never given the chance to read, and government seizure.
Reparation doesn’t undo that history. But it does something real: it returns a portion of the wealth that land has generated back to the people it was taken from. It puts resources in the hands of tribal communities, and it tells your neighbors that this history is worth reckoning with.
One percent of a home sale is a small number. Multiplied across a movement, it isn’t.
How the Pledge works
What signing the Pledge means
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Whether you’re selling next month or decades from now, you can take the Pledge today.
