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The Ramapough Mountain Indians, also Ramapo Mountain Indians, commonly known by the pejorative name "Jackson Whites," are a group of approximately 3000 people living around the Ramapo Mountains of northern New Jersey and southern New York. The center of their community is a small mountain called Stag Hill.
Ethnically they are the descendants of the Lenape, with a mixture of African from the freed slaves of the Hudson River Valley, Tuscarora, Dutch and various other Caucasians.
The term "Jackson Whites" is derived from "jacks and whites," where "jack" is a pejorative for a black man, because the Jackson Whites are distinguished by their racially mixed appearance.
Traditionally they spoke Jersey Dutch; a mix of Dutch, English and Algonquian.
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