NJ Mountain People

[rich]

not full text but if u can find it, its an interesting read and very much a
story of the preterite and America's love affair with fucking them over

Summary:
bout the Ramapough Mountain Indians of New Jersey and an incident in 2006 in
which a ranger shot and killed a man named Emil Mann. Writer describes the
events of April 1, 2006, which led to the shooting of Emil Mann after an
altercation between a group of local residents and three park rangers in the
woods of the Ramapo Mountains in northern New Jersey. The Ramapoughs number
a few thousand, marry largely among themselves, and are concentrated in
three primary settlements: on and around Stag Hill, in Mahwah; in the
village of Hillburn, New York; and west of Stag Hill, in Ringwood, New
Jersey. They are sometimes called “mountain people,” which is a euphemism
for what locals used to call “Jackson Whites,” a racial slur that the
referents equate with the word “nigger.” Writer describes environmental
damage caused by heavy industry in the region: the Ringwood mines and a Ford
assembly plant, which operated in Mahwah from 1955 until 1980. The E.P.A.
mandated a Superfund cleanup of the area by Ford in the nineteen-eighties
and ordered further remediation beginning five years ago. Discusses a number
of theories about the origins of the Ramapough Mountain Indians. Their
racial makeup appeared to include Native-American, European, and
African-American features. Tells about the history of the term “Jackson
Whites,” and mentions George Weller’s article “The Jackson Whites,”
published in *The New Yorker* in 1938

Read more:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/01/100301fa_fact_mcgrath#ixzz0gQKe5H0H
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