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The Ramapough Mountain Indians (also spelled Ramapo), known also as the Ramapough Lenape Nation or Ramapough Lunaape Munsee Delaware Nation or Ramapo Mountain people, are a New Jersey state-recognized tribe based in Mahwah.
Ramapo (occasionally spelled Ramapough) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and southeastern New York State.They were named after the Ramapough, a band of the Lenape Indians who migrated into the area from Connecticut by the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The Ramapough Nation's deep history Known as the Ramapough Lenape Munsi Nation , the Ramapoughs are culturally an Algonquin Nation organized into three clans, Turtle, Deer and Wolf, Stead said.
Katonah was a Lenape sachem who led parts of two bands of Wappinger in what is today the far southeastern part of mainland New York State and southwestern Connecticut: the Wiechquaeskeck in the Greenwich, Stamford areas of Connecticut, and the Ramapo inhabiting that of today's Bedford, New York.
Picaro is a member of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, which encompasses Passaic and Sussex counties. She and Vincent Mann, chief of Turtle Clan of the Ramapough, started the 14-acre Munsee Three ...
The Ringwood Mines landfill site is a 500 acres (200 ha) former iron mining site located in the borough of Ringwood, New Jersey.From 1967 to 1980, the Ford Motor Company dumped hazardous waste on this land, which negatively affected the health and properties of Ramapough Mountain Indians. [1]
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. [31] Letter of Intent to Petition 01/03/1992. [23] [61] Ramapough Lenape Nation. [61] Powhatan Renape Nation. [61] New Mexico.
Descendants of the Lenape include the Ramapough Lenape Indian Tribe (also known as the Ramapough Mountain Indians), recognized in 1980 by the state of New Jersey. Many Ramapough Lenape people have lived in what is now Mahwah and Ringwood, New Jersey and Hillburn, New York since the late colonial period. They also intermarried with people of ...