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

03 December 2019 – Anita Bakshi

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

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

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

Repatriation and the work of decolonization

18 June 2019 – Chip Colwell

museums, conference, finance, artifacts, 2019 annual meeting, Indigenous People, NCPH 2019 Awards, American Indians, decolonization

Editors’ Note: This is the third in a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards given out at the NCPH 2019 annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Chip Colwell received the NCPH Book Award for Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Read More

Local Knowledge and Public History

13 June 2019 – Dean Herrin

tours, 2019 annual meeting, Hartford series 2019, Indigenous People, American Indians, maritime history

During the annual meeting of the National Council for Public History in Hartford in March, I had the good fortune to be on the tour of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, and of Mystic Seaport, both in eastern Connecticut about an hour’s drive from Hartford. Read More

Repairing Hartford’s indigenous past

25 March 2019 – Katherine Hermes 5

sense of place, genealogy, community engagement, 2019 annual meeting, Native American, Hartford series 2019, digital, Indigenous People

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of pieces focused on Hartford and its regional identity which will be posted before and during the NCPH annual meeting in Hartford, Connecticut in March.

In 1999, when I was a fairly new associate professor at Central Connecticut State University, the editor of Connecticut History, Professor Bob Asher at the University of Connecticut, asked me if I knew of any interesting documents that might help increase the appeal of the journal. Read More