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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I am from 5 miles away from here. (origionally). Many don't beleive they are Indian tribes at all. Rather a mixed race from Dutch settlers and freed black slaves and Hessian soldier / diserters.

Goggle: Jackson Whites for a history. 'Jacks' were a slang term referring to freed blacks at the time. Also another theory part of the ancestry was from jamaican women captured to serve as , well, you know, to revolutionary soldiers in the area.

But, its more profitable to be an Indian nation these days.

9 posted on 04/21/2006 9:56:47 AM PDT by Swanks
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To: Swanks

I think that the Ramapough are recognized as a Lenape tribe. Not sure. But if they are, they date way back.


13 posted on 04/21/2006 10:01:28 AM PDT by Al Gator (Remember always to pillage BEFORE you burn!)
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