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Information on the Ramapo Mountain People (Ramapough Mountain Indians)[Jackson Whites]. These Mestee people claim to be the descendants of the Munsee division of the Lenape (Algonquians who were indigenous to the area before white arrival), but this is a very recent claim. Previously, they claimed to be Tuscarora (southern Iroquoians who passed by west of the Ramapo Mountains on their way to Canada). Studies indicate they are a Black-Dutch mixture from the Dutch settlements in the Hudson valley.

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