Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The clear sky and crisp breeze made last Thursday the perfect day for the Native American Heritage Month Opening Proclamation. Chief Equity and Diversity Officer Nicole Morgan Agard began the ceremony with a speech dedicated to the Ramapo Munsee Lenape Nation and Ramapo’s first-generation students. During her speech, Agard requested […]
Ringwood, New Jersey is about a 20-minute drive away from Ramapo College and home to generations of Ramapough Indians. The woodsy town was built on the foundations of Native land, but its community continues to die off due to decades of lethal contamination from Ford Motor Company, one of the […]
The Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance (EDIC) invited Jeffery Fountain, a tribal member of the Ramapough Munsee-Lenape Nation, to speak about oral history as part of its programming for Native American Heritage Month. Fountain, a member of the Deer Clan located in Hilburn, New York, about 3 miles […]
Oct. 31 may be Halloween, but the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance (EDIC) held a different kind of celebration at the Arch with the opening proclamation for Native American Heritage Month. The event featured President Cindy Jebb’s opening proclamation, then transitioned to a discussion on the Munsee language […]
Photo by Tori D'Amico The Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance (EDIC) led a Walk and Talk on Wednesday, Nov. 17 to educate attendees on how Native Americans use resources from the land. The event was held in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. For hundreds of years, members […]
Graphic courtesy of Ramapough Lenape Nation, Facebook To honor the end of Native American Heritage Month, Ramapo hosted a closing banquet in Friend’s Hall Tuesday evening. The Ramapough Lunaape tribe helped organize the event, along with the Women’s Center and the Center for Student Involvement. The event was used to […]
Photo by Giancarlo Sepulveda Anthropology classes at Ramapo closed out Native American Heritage Month on Wednesday with a banquet in Friends Hall that highlighted the research that anthropology classes have done in partnership with the Ramapough Lunaape Nation. The banquet featured presentations from various groups covering the pressing matters that […]
