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INDIANS AND IRON
By Ed Lenik and Nancy L. Gibbs
“Indians & Iron: A History of the Ramapough Munsee-Lenape of the Iron Complex at Ringwood & Hewitt, New Jersey.”
This is the fifth book in a series exploring the evidence of the continuous presence of the Ramapough Munsee Lenape in New Jersey and New York.
Before European prospectors appeared in the Ramapo Mountains, the indigenous people here discovered magnetite iron ore. Showing colonial prospectors these deposits in the 1700s changed everything.
The authors examine the interplay between the iron industry and the people who showed prospectors the iron ore. The indigenous people were here before the rise of the iron industry, and many remained employed in iron making and mining, living for generations in company housing, building a community that still exists.
About the Authors:
Author and Archaeologist Edward J. Lenik digs into the records and the research, including his own work of more than 60 years. Here he brings together his early work on the iron industry and his landmark work on the continuous presence of Indigenous people, the Ramapough Munsee Lenape. Here in Ringwood where the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough remains, Ed has volunteered with the State Park Friends Groups for more than 60 years. Now he writes of what he has learned about Indians and Iron in this place. Ed has degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson in Business and New York University in Archaeology.
Nancy L. Gibbs is an artist, writer, poet, researcher, and historian who has worked with Ed Lenik for over 40 years. Her academic background in art and archaeology with a focus on tribal arts (B.F.A. Beloit College in Wisconsin and M.F.A. Michigan State University) provides counterpoint as she and Ed work and write together.
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Product details
- Paperback: 215 pages
- Publisher: The North Jersey Highland Historical Society (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 978-0-9675706-7-9
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