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Anita Bakshi

Excavating subterranean histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, part 2

03 December 2019 – Anita Bakshi

social justice, environmental history, public engagement, memory, food, sense of place, interpretation, advocacy, Native American, methods, Indigenous People

Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 was published on November 28, 2019.

I first visited Ringwood, New Jersey, in February of 2018 with a group of fifteen students enrolled in my design studio class at Rutgers University’s department of landscape architecture. Read More

Excavating subterranean histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, part 1

28 November 2019 – Anita Bakshi

Indigenous People, memorials, landscape, social justice, native americans, public engagement, environmental history

The Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan have called Ringwood, New Jersey, home for centuries. The surrounding landscape features iron mines, Native American rock shelters, and a forest that provides food for hunters and foragers. But it also contains a stew of different chemical toxicants from the former Ford manufacturing plant, deep pockets of contaminated soil, streams that now flow with orange water, and the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site. Read More