The Ramapough and
decolonization - Anthony Van Dunk
Shawnee
Elder, 'Tah' (Donna), and I
met 'Shechaim Chief, Anthony Van Dunk' a number of times at his gatherings.
The Ramapough Lenape
Indians are an East coast people, or were at that time?
In other words, a Matriarch Tribe.
How can a tribe, a
traditional tribe, vote out a Sachem (Shechaim), their leader of the tribe?
You can vote out a
president, senator, congressman or woman, mayor and governor of this country.
However, a
traditional tribe is none of the above!
The same reason as
in this country, "Money talks, tradition, culture, and ceremonies
Walk"!
The elders
(ancestors), of our ‘First People, are rolling over in their graves and Creator
is ‘fit to be tired’ because of today’s tribes!
Shechaim Chief,
Anthony Van Dunk of the Ramapough Lenape Indians.
December 25,
2016
Ramapough Mountain
Indians
Our friend
Ronald Van Dunk, 68,
Chief Red Bone of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, Is Dead
By DOUGLAS
MARTINAPRIL 8, 2001
Ronald Van Dunk, who
led the Ramapough Mountain Indians in their continuing fight to win federal
recognition as a tribe, died last Sunday at a nursing home in Suffern, N.Y. He
was 68 and had lived in Hillburn, N.Y.
The cause was heart
failure, said his wife, Sheila.
Mr. Van Dunk, who
was known as Chief Red Bone, held the title of grand chief of the 3,000
Ramapough Mountain Indians, who belong to three groups or clans living in
Hillburn, in Rockland County, and across the state line in Mahwah and Ringwood
in northeastern New Jersey.
They were recognized
as a tribe by New York and New Jersey in 1980, but the federal government has
denied their application for tribal status, filed in 1979.
Anthony van dunk
Ramapough Lenape Indians obituary
