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	Ramapough_mountain_indians info here at en.athletic-coaching-salaries.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Ramapough Mountain Indians (also recognized as Ramapo Mountain Indians or the Ramapough Lenape Nation) are a interface of approximately 5,000 [1] persons current circumference the Ramapo Mountains of northern New Jersey southern New York.
		As of January 2006, the Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation is Anthony Jay Van Dunk[2].
		The entries of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation explicate themselves as the descendants of the Lenape Munsee peoples, with turning degrees of African, Tuscarora, Dutch, auxiliary caucasian ancestry.[citation needed] The Ramapough forth with petition habitual ancestry with auxiliary aboriginal American tribes in the north west.
	en.athletic-coaching-salaries.info /Ramapough_Mountain_Indians (1645 words)

	Unarmed Mahwah Man Repeatedly Shot-Where is Virgil Tibbs when you need him? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Ramapoughs involved in the incident are part of an insular group of roughly 2,000 people who trace their roots to the Leni-Lenape Indians and who have lived in the area since long before the land was incorporated into the state park system.
		More than 100 Ramapough Mountain Indians on Sunday demanded to know why a 43-year-old community member was shot by a police officer and his cousin arrested during a cookout in the Mahwah section of Ringwood State Park.
		Constance Jennings, whose house on Mountain Road is nearest the shooting scene, recalled that on Saturday morning, her husband and two of her four children were in the yard.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1609144/posts (3881 words)

	Ramapough Mountain Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Jersey is the home of three Indian communities - the Ramapough Mountain Indians, the Powhatan Renape and the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape.
		The Ramapough (or Ramapo) Mountain Indians, commonly known by the pejorative name "Jackson Whites", are a group of approximatly 3000 individuals living around the Ramapo Mountains of Northern New Jersey and Southern New York State.
		The center of their community is a small mountain called Stag Hill.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/ra/ramapough_mountain_indians.html (162 words)

	Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware Tribes
		Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation - VA They are a small Indian tribe located in the mountains of southern Appalachia primarily in the seven mountain counties of Carroll, Grayson, Wythe, Washington, Smyth, Patrick, and Floyd in the state of Virginia and Surry and Alleghany Counties in North Carolina.
		The Accohannock Indian Tribe is one of the oldest historical tribes in Maryland.
		The United Indians of Virginia (UIV) is an organization established to enhance communications between and among the indigenous Indian tribes recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or the United Indians of Virginia.
	www.ewebtribe.com /NACulture/easterntribes.htm (4391 words)

	American Indians - Metis
		Surviving Indian Groups of Eastern U.S. - 1948 article based on Census research on Indian and mixed race groups of eastern U.S. Description, location and common names given for many groups, including the Melungeons and Redbones.
		Ramapo Mountain Indians denied status by BIA - Report by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on their rejection of the Ramapo Mountain Indians bid for recognition as an Indian tribe.
		Ramapough Finding - U.S. Department of the Interior finding that the Ramapough Indians do not constitute an Indian Tribe by U.S. standards.
	www.americanindians.com /Metis.htm (2945 words)

	Our History
		One of the first Ramapough Indians mentioned on a land deed was a woman who signed the deed as a witness.
		The mountains were claimed by both New York and New Jersey and their overlapping borders were ideal for the natives in the Ramapough's because they were left to themselves.
		This also meant the Ramapough Indians would become more scrutinized as more curiosity seekers made their way into the mountains to see the andquot;outcast tribe.andquot; Upon finding the Indians unwilling to talk about their private lives and the struggles they'd endured, people made up their own stories.
	www.ramapoughlenapenation.org /index.php?topic=5.0 (1419 words)

	Ramapough Mountain Indians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The members of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation describe themselves as the descendants of the Lenape and Munsee peoples, with varying degrees of African, Tuscarora, Dutch, and other caucasian ancestry.
		The petitioner has not presented acceptable evidence that the RMI descend from a historical Indian tribe, or from tribes which amalgamated and functioned as a single unit, either as individuals or as a group.
		Indians in the Ramapos: Survival, Persistence and Presence
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians (1583 words)

	Indianz.Com > News > Editorial: Details of shooting incident don't add up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During a confrontation between park police officers and an estimated two dozen Ramapoughs, Emil Mann, a 43-year-old Ramapough from Monroe, N.Y., was shot at least twice.
		His cousin, Otis Mann, 42, is being held in the Bergen County Jail on $100,000 bail on charges that include aggravated assault and possession of a weapon.
		Mann was shot twice in the leg, but the Ramapoughs say he was shot twice in the chest and once in the groin.
	www.indianz.com /News/2006/013332.asp?print=1 (257 words)

	Welcome to Lenape Lifeways Page 5
		Life was often precarious for the Indians during the slavery period because some Euro-Americans considered them to be "colored" and hence, they were sometimes in danger of enslavement.
		Like most other Indian groups in New Jersey, the Nanticokes have lost or forgotten most of their lore because of acculturation, migration, intermarriage with non-Indians, and the deaths of knowledgeable elders with the passage of time.
		It should be noted, however, that not all the Ramapo people are members of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, Inc., identify with the Lenape, or even regard themselves as Indians (BAR 1996a: 10; Cohen 1974: 111-113).
	www.lenapelifeways.org /lenape5.htm (1025 words)

	Ramapough Mountain Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I have read and agree to the con tract rules and regulations of the Ramapough Mountain Indians and The land around The Forges and Manor of Ringwood is and always has been the home of the Ramapough Mountain Indians.
		In Response To Ramapough Mountain Indians a Environment News Service latest environmental news information current issues global warming Environment News Service for the latest environmental news current issues climate water food People a group similar to the Melungeons on the New Jersey New York border.
		In Response To Ramapough Mountain Indians a Ramapough Mountain Indians Stag Hill Road Mahwah NJ Attn Powwow Committee.
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	Ramapough Mountain Indians
		The Ramapough Mountain Indians (also known as Ramapo Mountain Indians or the Ramapough Lenape Nation) are a group of approximately 3,000 people living around the Ramapo Mountains of northern New Jersey and southern New York.
		Folk belief was that the Jackson Whites were descentants of runaway and freed slaves ("Jacks" in slang) and whites (including Dutch settlers and Hessian soldiers) who had supported the English during the American Revolution, and were forced to flee to the mountains after the end of the war.
		Ramapoughs recall 25 years of injustice from Ford, EPA
	www.measuroo.com /eth-R/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians.php (308 words)

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		Additionally, criterion 83.7(a) does not require that the identification as an Indian entity was factually accurate on the part of the observer, or that the observer was a specialist in anthropology or ethnography.
		Neither man was referred to as Indian on any other census record, nor were their parents or other siblings ever identified as Indian or of Indian descent in their own lifetimes.
		The immediate family members of Florence Maguiness, who was identified as Indian on the 1870 Federal census, were not identified as Indian or of Indian descent on any other census, church or civil record in their own lifetimes.
	www.bartlconsult.de /bc/proseminar/literatur/Ramasum.htm (9828 words)

	NJ Department of State
		Others, knowing they would never see their people that were fleeing, moved into the Ramapo Mountains, in isolation, to try to hold on to a small portion of the land they called home for centuries.
		There were no roads or trails into the mountains, except the ones made by animals, so the settlers paid little attention to the Indians living there.
		He was a direct decendant of the Indians that took refuge in the Ramapo Mountains so many years ago.
	www.state.nj.us /state/american_indian/mo (452 words)

	The Ramapough Mountain People : The Jackson Whites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Ramapough Mountain People, also known locally, and in the pejorative as “The Jackson Whites,” are an extended clan of closely interrelated families living in the Ramapo Mountains and their more remote valleys principally in Bergen County, New Jersey, but also in immediately adjacent Passaic County, New Jersey, and Rockland County, New York.
		A description of the Ramapo Mountain region with a recounting of the Jackson Whites legend.
		Ramapough Mountain Indian Tribe of New York and New Jersey.
	www.netstrider.com /documents/whites/index.html (7896 words)

	P.L.2001, c.417 (A2957 1R)
		Two of the public members shall be members of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Indians, to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Confederation of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Tribes and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
		Two of the public members shall be members of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Ramapough Mountain Indians and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
		"Intertribal People" means American Indians who reside in New Jersey and are not members of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Indians, the Ramapough Mountain Indians, or the Powhatan Renape Nation, but are enrolled members of another tribe recognized by another state or the federal government.
	www.njleg.state.nj.us /2000/bills/pl01/417_.htm (726 words)

	The WAPPINGER lived on the east side of the Hudson River between the Bronx and Rhinebeck extending east to the crest of ...
		Known also for their fierceness and tenacity as warriors the Lenape are recorded, however, as choosing a path of accommodation with the Europeans, treating William Penn for eastern Pennsylvania and signing the first Indian treaty with the United States (Sept. 17, 1778).
		The original Mahican homeland was the Hudson River Valley from the Catskill Mountains north to the southern end of Lake Champlain.
		Bounded by the Schoharie River in the west, it extended east to the crest of the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts from northwest Connecticut north to the Green Mountains in southern Vermont.
	users.bestweb.net /~judynoel/ptown/hudson_indians.htm (1271 words)

	US UPDATE: Mounting campaigns
		Activists at Coal River Mountain Watch and other organizations connect these past and potential future disasters with the greater issue of mountaintop removal mining, a practice routinely used in Appalachia by Teco Coal, Arch Coal, AandG Coal Corporation, National Coal, Massey Energy and its subsidiaries.
		According to Paloma Galindo of United Mountain Defense, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based nonprofit, permit violations such as the case at Marsh Fork are the norm rather than the exception.
		In a nonviolent grassroots effort called Mountain Justice Summer (MJS), organized by a coalition of anti-mountaintop removal mining groups from West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, activists used every tactic from street theater to soil testing to call attention to the issue.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press895.htm (2398 words)

	Ramapough Mountain Indians Sue Ford Over Toxic Contamination
		Attorneys representing the Ramapough Mountain Tribe and other residents of Ringwood, New Jersey have filed a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company and other defendants for property damage and personal injuries allegedly caused by the improper disposal of toxic waste from Ford’s former Mahwah, New Jersey automobile plant.
		Ringwood is located in the Ramapo Mountains at the eastern end of New Jersey.
		Mann is a member of the Ramapough Mountain Tribe living near the site, the historical homeland of the tribe, which is recognized by the state of New Jersey, although not by the federal government.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2006/2006-01-21-01.asp (1073 words)

	The Online Communicator: Indians of Pennsylvania & the Delaware Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Ramapough Mountain Indians are an eastern group, descended from Delawares, who had been seeking government recognition.
		Ashmead's text provides numerous references to Indian activities and influences in the southeastern part of the state, going back to the 17th century -- and to top it off, the entire site is searchable by keyword.
		United American Indians of the Delaware Valley [corrected URL] is a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization providing numerous support services and cultural activities for Indians of all backgrounds.
	www.online-communicator.com /indianpa.html (1783 words)

	Brothertown Indian Nation
		Although the Ramapough Mountain Indians have resided in the Ramapough Mountains for more than three hundred years, there is very little documentation in New York or New Jersey that refers to the tribe.
		Victor Jaquemont wrote about Indians, with blood from the original Natives from the area, living in the mountains in 1827.
		This also meant the Ramapough Indians would become more scrutinized as more curiosity seekers made their way into the mountains to see the "outcast tribe." Upon finding the Indians unwilling to talk about their private lives and the struggles they'd endured, people made up their own stories.
	www.network54.com /Forum/285990/message/1120170034/Interesting (1351 words)

	Re: Ramapough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Recoginition was sought in order to counter the distorted picture of their ancestry portrayed in David S. Cohen's book, THE RAMAPO MOUNTAIN PEOPLE, wherein the American Indian component of their ancestry was basically, and unaccountably, denied.
		I suggest you read the book, INDIANS IN THE RAMAPOS: SURVIVAL, PRESENCE AND PERSISTANCE, by Edward J. Lenik, Ringwood, NJ, 1999, which gathers together much of the evidence for the American Indian ancestry of the Ramapough people.
		I am not a Ramapough, and I'm sure there are Ramapough folks who post to this list who can better speak to this issue than can I, but the idea that "high stakes bingo," or gambling of any sort, was the reason for seeking recognition is patently false.
	forum.lenapeindians.com /_disc1/0000008a.htm (168 words)

	Corzine talks to Indians about shooting
		Jon S. Corzine and other state officials met on Wednesday with the tribal council of the Ramapough Mountain Indians to discuss the fatal shooting this month of a tribe member by a
		Farber said she expected the case to be presented to a grand jury in several weeks.
		Farber said she would consider sensitivity training for police officers to acquaint them with the culture of American Indians in the state.
	www.rlnn.com /ArtApril06/CorzineTalksIndiansBAboutShoting.html (573 words)

	Ramapough Mountain Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Ramapough Mountain Indians (also Ramapo Mountain Indians, commonly known by the pejorative name "'''Jackson Whites'''") are a group of approximately 3,000 people living around the Ramapo Mountains of northern New Jersey and southern New York.
		Traditionally they spoke Jersey Dutch, which was a mixture of Dutch, English, and Algonquian.
		Ramapough Mountain People: "The Jackson Whites": A Pathfinder and annotated bibliography
	ramapough-mountain-indians.iqnaut.net (151 words)

	People at Ringwood Manor
		The land around The Forges & Manor of Ringwood is, and always has been, the home of the Ramapough Mountain Indians.
		Descendents of the Lenni Lenapi, the early German settlers, and others, the Ramapough Mountain Indians live in the hills above the manor house.
		The Episopalian Church of the Good Shepherd on Margaret King road was built by the Hewitt family as the worker's church.
	www.ringwoodmanor.com /peo/na/na.htm (124 words)

	Delaware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After a long struggle with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), they regained federal recognition in September, 1996 as the Delaware Tribe of Indians with their tribal offices in Bartlesville.
		The agreement has been described by Voltaire as "the one treaty with the Indians that the whites never broke." Believing the land west of the Lenape belonged to the Susquehannock, Penn returned to England without establishing the western boundaries of his purchase.
		For the Iroquois, the Indian reservation they were running along the upper Susquehanna for members of covenant chain was a source of much-needed manpower to counter the French-Algonquin alliance which had driven them from the Great Lakes between 1687 and 1701.
	www.tolatsga.org /dela.html (16675 words)

	Wappinger
		East side of the Hudson River between the Bronx and Rhinebeck extending east to the crest of the Taconic Mountains on the border between New York and Connecticut.
		The R-dialect spoken by the Wappinger was almost identical to that of the Mattabesic in western Connecticut and the Metoac tribes of western and central Long Island.
		Underhill had a well-earned reputation throughout New England as the "scourge of Indians." A deeply religious man, he had a unusual concept of Christian duty, best illustrated by his later explanation that "Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents...we had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings."
	www.dickshovel.com /wap.html (7111 words)

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