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Ramapough Lenape Cut Ribbon on New and Improved Community Center in Mahwah

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photos courtesy of Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco

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Mahwah NJ, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco joined the Ramapough Lenape in Mahwah at the ribbon cutting for the improved Ramapough Lenape Community Center. This newly renovated center will continue to serve the great Ramapough Lenape community, and serves as a reminder of the people that inhabited these lands for thousands of years before us.

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Ramapo Nation Reclaims Split Rock Mountain

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Mahwah NJ, It’s been a long time coming, but today we celebrate! The Ramapo Munsee Land Alliance (RMLA), the Ramapo Munsee Lunaape Nation, and The Land Conservancy of New Jersey are happy to announce a long-awaited, historic transfer of the Tahetaweew—commonly known as Split Rock Mountain—back to the Ramapo people. This landmark moment returns stewardship of sacred land to the nation for the first time since 1737, before the American Revolution.

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Site Tour of Historic New Bridge Landing by Bergen County Historical Society with Past president & Museum Collection Chair Deborah Powell.

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Sunday, July 25, 2021, 2 pm – 3:30 pm
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Historic New Bridge Landing NJ, the Bergen County Historical Society site Tour of Historic New Bridge Landing by Bergen County Historical Society  Past president & Museum Collection Chair Deborah Powell. Learn about the stone houses of Bergen County through three examples at Historic New Bridge Landing.

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Native Americans were Credited with Introducing Tobacco to Europeans

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Ridgewood NJ, so why do cigar stores have statues of native Americans in front of them and what is the history of the “Cigar Store Indian”? The story of the Cigar Store Indians actually started in the United Kingdom.

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New Jersey Acknowledges Historic Recognition of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Nation, Agrees to Pay Tribe $2.4 Million

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photo courtesy of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Nation

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Trenton NJ,  Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced today a settlement with the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation under which the State acknowledges it has officially recognized the 3,000-member Tribe as an American Indian Tribe since 1982.

In addition to affirming its historic recognition of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Nation, the State will pay the Tribe a total of $2.4 million under the settlement agreement.
The State has also agreed to formally notify all relevant state and federal agencies of the Tribe’s official recognition status.

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Reader says Ramapoughs Must Find balance

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I have read several articles about the Ramapoughs. The Pollution of their land by Ford was a crime that caused and still causes health problems. They need superfund cleanup and healthcare screening for this.

Their fights with neighbors will not win them many friends.. A few years ago three Ramapough members were arrested for arson for setting fire to a home (empty) that a tribe member had lost in foreclosure.

Assimilation is the name of the game. You can keep your culture alive and still participate in the life of the outside community. Education and jobs are the future. If you chose to live totally as a tribe member your opportunities will be limited. Find balance

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Ramapough leaders charged with criminal mischief

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Tom Nobile , Staff Writer, @TomNobile

MAHWAH — Two leaders of the Ramapough Lenape Nation have been charged with criminal mischief after an investigation into vandalism at the Polo Club, a residential development next to the tribe’s property.

Tribe member Steven D. Smith, 29, is accused of tampering with a neighborhood surveillance camera by trying to turn the lens to a different view, according to police. He was driven to the scene by Chief Dwaine Perry, police said.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/mahwah/2017/06/08/ramapough-leaders-charged-criminal-mischief/382460001/

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American Native a Documentary that Explores Struggle of New Jersey’s Ramapough at TribeClearview Warner Quad Theater in Ridgewood

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Documentary Explores Struggle of New Jersey’s Ramapough Tribe

By TAMMY LA GORCEAUG. 8, 2015

Corey Bobker was an accomplished 30-something adult when he took his first drive into the Ramapo Mountains in 2010. But the 12-year-old version of him still had knots in his stomach.

“When I was a kid growing up, everybody knew you don’t go up into the mountains because you’d get shot,” said Mr. Bobker, producer of the documentary “American Native.” His film explores the struggles of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, a Native American tribe with about 5,000 members, according to its chief, Dwaine C. Perry. The Ramapough live mostly across the Stag Hill region of Mahwah, Ringwood and nearby Hillburn, N.Y.

Mr. Bobker, of Los Angeles, grew up in Livingston. As a child, he attended summer camp in Stanhope, near the Ramapos in Mahwah. He had not gotten close to the mysterious mountain chain again until this anxiety-ridden car trip to visit with the tribe for the first time. “I was definitely worried,” he said. “I thought, Maybe it’s true — maybe they’re going to confront us if we say something the wrong way.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/nyregion/documentary-explores-struggle-of-new-jerseys-ramapough-tribe.html?_r=0

 

THU, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
AT 07:30 PM 
Warner Quad
Ridgewood, NJ

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