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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- Ramapough Mountain Indians Wikipedia article on this group.
- Ramapough Lenape Nation Official tribal website identifying these people as Algonquian Indians of Munsee and other Lenape ancestry.
- Ramapough Mountain People 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 Review and introduction to some articles on the Ramapo Mountain People.