Directory of Ramapo Mountain People Resources

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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.

Resources in This Category

• Ramapough Lenape Nation

  http://www.ramapoughlenapenation.org/
  Official tribal website identifying these people as Algonquian Indians of Munsee and other Lenape ancestry.

• Ramapough Mountain Indians

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians
  Wikipedia article on this group.

• Ramapough Mountain People

  http://weirdnj.com/stories/fabled-people-and-places/jackson-whites/
  Legends about and history of an old mixed group on the New Jersey - New York border which now identifies itself as Native American.

• The Racially-Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends

  http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?tag=jackson-whites
  Review and introduction to some articles on the Ramapo Mountain People.

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