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That the Ramapough Mountain People of the Ramapough Mountains of Bergen and Passaic counties, descendants of the Iroquois and Algonquin nations, are hereby designated by the State of New Jersey as the Ramapough Indians. [8] The tribe asked its New Jersey Assembly member, W. Cary Edwards, to seek state recognition. After several months of ...
Pohatcong Mountain; Pompeston Creek (tributary of the Delaware River in Burlington County) Pompton River; Pophandusing Brook (tributary of the Delaware River in Warren County) Preakness Range; Rahway River; Ramapo Mountains; Ramapo River; Rancocas Creek; Raritan Bay; Raritan River; Sanhickan, native name for the falls of the Delaware River at ...
Some believe the Ramapo Sachemdom - which later relocated across the Hudson River in both New York and New Jersey (for whom today's town of Ramapo, New York, and the Ramapo Mountains of New Jersey are named) - was part of the Tankiteke chieftaincy of the Wappinger (itself effectively a league or confederation of a dozen or so bands, sovereign ...
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. Does your town's name have Native American roots? The answer might surprise you
Articles about people, places and things associated with the Ramapo Mountain and Valley region of New Jersey and New York. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
About the Commission The New Jersey Commission on Native American Affairs was created by P.L.1134, c. 295, and signed into law on December 22, 1995, by Governor Christine Todd Whitman. It was placed within the New Jersey Department of State. Later legislation changed the name to the New Jersey Commission on American Indian Affairs.
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 majority of New Jersey's quakes occurred around this fault area. History: Friday's earthquake was the strongest in NJ since 1783. A look back at quake history. The Ramapo Fault system runs ...