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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.
They were bordered by the Mohican and Wappinger on the north and east, and fellow Lenape (Delaware) on the south and southeast. They were regarded as a buffer between the southern Lenape and the Iroquois Confederacy based in present-day New York south of the Great Lakes. Their council village was Minisink, probably in Sussex County, New Jersey ...
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.
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.
Two Delaware Nation citizens, Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat, in Oklahoma, in 1915 [6]. The Lenape (English: / l ə ˈ n ɑː p i /, /-p eɪ /, / ˈ l ɛ n ə p i /; [7] [8] Lenape languages: [9]), also called the Lenni Lenape [10] and Delaware people, [11] are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
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 ...