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The Ramapough Mountain Indians ( also spelled Ramapo ), also known as the Ramapough Lenape Nation, are a group of approximately 5, 000 people living around the Ramapo Mountains of Bergen and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey and Rockland County in southern New York, about 25 miles from New York City.
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Some of their descendants are included among the Ramapough Mountain Indians, recognized as a tribe by the state in 1980.
Their descendants have combined with other Native Americans and ethnicities and were recognized in 1980 by the state as the Ramapough Mountain Indians.
Their descendants and Afro-Dutch migrants from New York were among the people who formed the multiracial group known as the Ramapough Mountain Indians, recognized in 1980 as a Native American tribe by the state of New Jersey.
* Wayne Mann, member of the Ramapough Mountain Indians and leader of 600-person mass tort suit against Ford Motor Company for environmental contamination of the Ringwood Mines landfill site.
These multiracial descendants were recognized in 1980 by the state as the Ramapough Mountain Indians ; they also have centers of population in Mahwah and Ringwood, New Jersey, which were areas of frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Ramapough Mountain Indians and the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape identify as Lenape descendants and are recognized as tribes by the state of New Jersey.
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.
The Ramapough Mountain Indians ( RMI ) filed a petition for federal recognition as a tribe in 1978.
As with other multiracial peoples seeking recognition as Native American tribes, the Ramapough Mountain Indians have encountered differences of opinion over the significance of ancestry in contrast to identity in being recognized as a distinct culture.
Ramapough Mountain Indians still live in the county, especially in Hillburn, New York
During a period of urbanization, high rates of immigration, and suburban development throughout the New York metropolitan area, the Ramapough Mountain Indians uniquely lived in their historic areas of settlement in the mountains, and maintained a rural culture.
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Others who migrated went to Pennsylvania, eastern New York, and northern New Jersey, at the Ramapo Mountain refugium ( see Ramapough Mountain Indians ), by moving from rock shelter to rock shelter, in order to survive.
The Ramapough Mountain Indians, now called the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation, are recognized by New Jersey as a Native American tribe and identify as descendants of the Lenape.
* Ramapough Mountain Indians, or Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation, a tribal group living in and near the Ramapo Mountains
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.
Ramapough and Indians
In 2006, some 600 Ramapough Indians filed a mass tort claim against Ford for damages.
Archeologist and Historian Edward J. Lenik disagrees with Cohen's findings by stating " While the Ramapough's origins are controversial, most historians and anthropolgists agree that they ( Ramapough ) are the descendants from local Munsee speaking Lenape ( Delaware ) Indians who fled to the mountains in the late seventeenth century to escape Dutch and English settlers.
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.
Ramapough and also
The Lenape language in this area was Munsee and the Tuscarora spoke an Iroquoian language but, following contact with European colonists, ancestors of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation were also known to have spoken Jersey Dutch and English.
Ramapough and spelled
Ramapo ( occasionally spelled Ramapough ) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey ( Bergen and Passaic Counties ) and the adjoining area of Rockland County in southeastern New York State.
Ramapough and Ramapo
Colonists called the local band the Ramapough, and named the Ramapo River and other regional features after them.
The Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation identify as descendants of Lenape, whose regional bands included the Hackensack, Tappan, Rumachenanck / Haverstroo, Munsee / Minisink and Ramapo people.
William Bond recorded Ramapough Longhouses at the mouth of the Ramapo Pass.
When colonists entered the areas along Ramapo Creek to develop iron mines and works in the eighteenth century, they noted that the Ramapough people occupied the hills.
* Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation ( Ramapo Mountain Indians, Ramapough Lunaape Nation ).
Ramapough and known
It was spoken by the descendants of Dutch settlers to New Jersey and by the mixed race people known as the Ramapough Mountain Indians.
Ramapough and Lenape
Their tribal office is located on Stag Hill Road in Mahwah, and the Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation is Dwaine Perry ( as of March 2007 ).
Since January 2007, the Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation has been Dwaine Perry.
The Ramapough Lenape Nation, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, and the Powhatan Renape Nation have a longstanding history of working together to care for members in the State of New Jersey.
Members of the Ramapough Lenape Nation who are descendants of Katonah joined forces with the Town of Katonah to oppose it.
Ramapough and Nation
In recent years, the language is being taught to tribal members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Native Americans, the Ramapough Mountain Indians and the Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames Band.
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The Ramapough are working to restore the Munsee language among their members.
( The surname Van Dunk is common among the Ramapough, as are DeGroat, DeFreese, and Mann.
Ramapough and people
Members of the community have participated in litigation against the Ford Motor Company regarding poisoning from a former toxic waste landfill, portions of which were subsequently used in the 1970s as sites for affordable housing for the Ramapough people.
In 2009 the New York legislature had a bill pending to recognize the Ramapough people as Native Americans.
A number of local historians, genealogists and archeologists have written about the Ramapough people.
A less common theory of ancestry was that the Ramapough were Indian people who had been held as slaves by colonists.
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The Ramapough and two other tribes were recognized as Indian tribes in 1980 by the state of New Jersey by Resolution 3031.
But, according to Alexa Koenig and Jonathan Stein, who have reviewed state recognition processes and state-recognized, New York does not have a separate process of recognition of Indian tribes and never recognized the Ramapough.
Wynant Van Gelder, the first European landowner in what became Sloatsburg in Rockland County, New York, was noted as having bought land from the Ramapough in 1738.
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