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Ramapough Stores - Title Card. This image shows a background with faded-out writing on it. It reads "Storytelling Circles. We Will Survive!" faded in the background illegible cursive handwritten text is visible.

Ramapough Stores - Title Card. This image shows a background with faded-out writing on it. It reads "Storytelling Circles. We Will Survive!" faded in the background illegible cursive handwritten text is visible.

Butterfly Story
This image contains text from The Butterfly Story as recounted by Ramapough elder Cindy Fountain to Chuck Stead in 2009. Photographs are of a dance by Cindy Fountain in 2018. The text reads: "Butterfly says to me, you can’t help, but change, oh you can fight it but that just slows it down, it don’t stop it. I look at all your young faces and I see Butterfly telling you to accept and move with change. You know Butterfly tells us about shape shifting and you are all shape shifting all the time. When you feel them wings coming on you ask yourself what change are you in now? Are you truly ready to fly? Can you learn the wind’s message? Grandmother wind will direct you, will you fight her or move with her?"

Our Land, Our Stories Book Cover
This image shows a book cover for the "Our Land, Our Stories" book, published in 2022. The book cover is designed to look like an old newspaper, with sepia-colored paper, divided by blue vertical lines. The cover of the book contains the title and the list of authors: "Our Land, Our Stories: Excavating Subterranean Histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation. Stories By: Chief Vincent Mann, Wayne Mann, Vivian Milligan, Chuck Stead. Anita Bakshi, Editor"

cover of 2nd edition of Our Land, Our Stories

The Butterfly Story
This image contains text from The Butterfly Story as recounted by Ramapough elder Cindy Fountain to Chuck Stead in 2009. Photographs are of a dance by Cindy Fountain in 2018. The text reads: "Butterfly says to me, you can’t help, but change, oh you can fight it but that just slows it down, it don’t stop it. I look at all your young faces and I see Butterfly telling you to accept and move with change. You know Butterfly tells us about shape shifting and you are all shape shifting all the time. When you feel them wings coming on you ask yourself what change are you in now? Are you truly ready to fly? Can you learn the wind’s message? Grandmother wind will direct you, will you fight her or move with her?"

Water Title Image - this image shows a photograph of the Wanaque Resevoir with the WATER title text

Flora and Fauna Title Image - this image shows a photograph of a plant taken in Ringwood with the FLORA & FAUNA title text

Contamination Title Image - this image shows a photograph of a pond in Ringwood with the CONTAMINATION title text

History Title Image - this image shows a photograph of Peters Mine with the HISTORY title text

Community Title Image- this image shows a photograph of a powwow in Ringwood with the COMMUNITY title text

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