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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 ...
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]
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 pride and identity goes on display on Saturday with a walk through Hillburn and ceremony at Memorial Park on Fourth Street.
Sloat family descendants return land use deed to Ramapough on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ.
Lenape (6 C, 65 P) N. Nanticoke (3 C, 10 P) R. Ramapough Mountain Indians (5 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in New Jersey"
But the lure of trade goods such as metal pots, skillets, and knives sometimes proved too strong. The Indians traded with the white newcomers anyway and inadvertently spread disease to their villages. [63] In the late 19th century, the Lakota Indians of the Plains called the disease the "rotting face sickness". [35] [63]
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