The Book and Plow trail connects to the Mammoth Loop at the top of the rise, where stunning views of the hills to the east await visitors in every season. As part of Amherst's Bicentennial, the Native and Indigenous Students Association (NISA) is developing modes of land acknowledgement to recognize past and present contributions of Native and Indigenous People in the region. Amherst is located in Nonotuck homelands, which are connected by kinship to multiple Native nations in the region, including the Nipmuc, Wampanoag, Mohegan, Pequot, Mohican and Abenaki Nations. A map of some of the Native nations in the region can be found on Professor Lisa Brooks's website.
The fertile lands of Kwenitekw, the Connecticut River, were sustainably farmed by Indigenous women for hundreds of years before the settlers of Hadley arrived in the seventeenth century and displaced Nonotuck people from their planting grounds. Planting and agricultural innovation are still vital to the continuance of Indigenous communities in the region.