NJ Mountain People

[rich]

i think the piece encapsulates so much about what Pynchon is on about in his
books--those places unmapped, ever under threat, the sad history of slavery
(blacks, women, rejects, war deserters) in America, the mythologies of race
and racial history, the environmental degradation due to corporate greed,
indifference, and the despair of those who are part of those tribes (shit,
they were denied even by fellow native tribes, at least officially)

and all happening in fucking Mahwah.  shit again

rich

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> thanks for this, rich.
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> --- On Tue, 2/23/10, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> > Subject: NJ Mountain People
> > To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 11:20 PM
> > 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
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> >
> > Read more:
> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/01/100301fa_fact_mcgrath#ixzz0gQKe5H0H
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