They had lived in the woodlands, 25 miles from New York City, for generations. Why were people so afraid of them? NewYorkerArchive
Native Americans, naturally, accounted for the first ingredient in the popular conception of this uniquely local melting pot: Delaware, or Lenape, the original inhabitants of the mid-Atlantic region; and Tuscarora, who might have stopped off on their northward march to Oneida after losing a war with the settlers of North Carolina in 1714.
Weller and other premature eulogizers underestimated the extent to which racial anxiety and isolation are self-reinforcing.
This was the house Phyllis had grown up in, along with four brothers and five sisters. She raised her own four children on a street ringing the lake that I’d passed, and sold that place in the mid-nineties, after her husband died. “Today we’re living among strangers,” she said. “There’s strangers on the mountain. They call it progress.” She’d heard that the owner of her old house by the lake was hoping to get a huge amount for it. “They have plans for that road—big plans,” she said.
Cohen granted that individual Native Americans might have married into the new mountain families, but his thesis was that the people of the Ramapos were essentially “Afro-Dutch,” as he put it, and he suggested that their collective identification with Indian traits was itself a kind of internalized racism; not wishing to be black, they preferred to think of themselves as something rarer—as, indeed, the mainstream culture had always insisted they were.
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