NJ Mountain People

[Mark Kohut]

I think you've found, unfortunately, a perfect example.

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: NJ Mountain People
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:26 AM
> 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)
> 
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> 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
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> > over
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> > 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
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> > describes the events of April 1, 2006, which led to
> the
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> > shooting of Emil Mann after an altercation between a
> group
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> > of local residents and three park rangers in the woods
> of
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> > the Ramapo Mountains in northern New Jersey. The
> Ramapoughs
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> > 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;
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> > and west of Stag Hill, in Ringwood, New Jersey. They
> are
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> > sometimes called “mountain people,” which is a
> euphemism
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> > for what locals used to call “Jackson Whites,” a
> racial
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> > slur that the referents equate with the word
> “nigger.”
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> > Writer describes environmental damage caused by heavy
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> > industry in the region: the Ringwood mines and a Ford
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> > assembly plant, which operated in Mahwah from 1955
> until
> 
> > 1980. The E.P.A. mandated a Superfund cleanup of the
> area by
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> > Ford in the nineteen-eighties and ordered further
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> > remediation beginning five years ago. Discusses a
> number of
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> > theories about the origins of the Ramapough Mountain
> 
> > Indians. Their racial makeup appeared to include
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> > Native-American, European, and African-American
> features.
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> > Tells about the history of the term “Jackson
> Whites,”
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> > and mentions George Weller’s article “The Jackson
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> > 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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