2023-05-18T09:18:41-04:00 2022-12-31 990 2022-01-01 823698874 RAMAPOUGH CULTURE AND LAND FOUNDATION INC % michaeline piacro RAMA 9739039560 21 HEMLOCK AVE NEWTON NJ 078609748 Michaeline Picaro executive director 2023-05-18 false 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z michaeline piacro 21 Hemlock Ave Newton NJ 07860 345895 false X X INC 2017 NJ The Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation's vision is to weave a land ethic into the fabric of our society; to ensure eight generations vision that will advance the understanding for future generations. Land stewardship land conveyance and restoration of land health; protect and restore lands sacred sites and water bodies providing educational programming for Native Americans and the general public future generations in order to protect land for conservation cultural ceremonial practices and educational purposes. Food Sovereignty; freely develop and implement self-determined definitions of food sovereignty; cultivate access and secure nutritious culturally essential food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods; and design and maintain food systems and enact policies that advance tribal priorities for ensuring that tribal citizens and surrounding community have the sustenance they need to thrive physically mentally socially and culturally not just today 3 0 0 0 0 0 345895 0 0 0 345895 0 0 66275 0 0 113900 180175 165720 250097 78125 171972 X The Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation's vision is to weave a land ethic into the fabric of our society; to ensure eight generations vision that will advance the understanding for future generations. Land stewardship land conveyance and restoration of land health; protect and restore lands sacred sites and water bodies providing educational programming for Native Americans and the general public future generations in order to protect land for conservation cultural ceremonial practices and educational purposes. Food Sovereignty; freely develop and implement self-determined definitions of food sovereignty; cultivate access and secure nutritious culturally essential food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods; and design and maintain food systems and enact policies that advance tribal priorities for ensuring that tribal citizens and surrounding community have the sustenance they need to thrive physically mentally socially and culturally not just today false false 0 0 0 Living on these lands for thousands of years Munsee Lunaape and their ancestors built and maintained a massive network of trails and markers to physically and spiritually navigate their relationship to this land. Cairns cradle rocks compass stones balance boulders viewing seats and ceremonial complexes help the stewards of this land nurture balance between the living and their spirit ancestors Mother Earth and the Sky Beings and the people and the land. This already encroached upon cultural resource is under severe further threat from exurban development artifact-hunting and the sheer lack of awareness. This work is a necessary part of the Ramapough peoples' efforts to restore cultural and environmental balance back to the region and to heal themselves from centuries of dispossession and persecution. Picaro Mann to devise a strategy for recognizing Indigenous local knowledge traditions and collaborating with scholars community organizations and the general public. This is an essential step towards launching a broader campaign to raise awareness about the Munsee Lunaape landscape to encourage further research and preservation efforts. This work will help restore Native cultures in New Jersey to their rightful prominence and help non-Natives develop more sustainable and spiritually-viable relationships to the land. Over the last few years Picaro Mann has been codifying knowledge she inherited from her ancestors communications from the stones themselves and archival and academic material she has gathered from scholars and local experts. Over the course of this work the land has revealed to her that Munsee Lunaape CSLs are far more extensive than many realize and that it requires immediate protection. Generations of Ramapough people have painstakingly preserved this irreplaceable knowledge system on their own. The land now requests the help of others before too much more is lost. Picaro Mann to develop best practices and protocols for bringing these cultural landscapes to public attention. We will help her connect the Ramapough people with historians archeologists local experts and a variety of other stakeholders to develop a Native-centered strategy for the stewardship study and interpretation of this precious cultural resource. This will assist the Ramapough and other Indigenous groups assert their rightful places as stewards for the study and interpretation of their cultural patrimony. Picaro Mann has conducted field survey of the "Middle Forty" on the Delaware River around the sacred Minisink Island area. The work consists of GPS documentation with descriptions photos and deed research. Education outreach and partnerships with Historical societies environmental organizations all stakeholders who want preservation of land and culture as is. The proposal to re designation scenic river and waterways nation designation to NPS National Park Service will threaten our as is land and culture. 0 0 0 Food land and justice a partnership of Decolonizing wealth Project. The 50,000 is provided for general operating support. 0 0 0 Environmental justice land stewardship funding through water and land injustice. 45,000 0 0 0 0 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false X 3 0 false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false true false false NJ X Michaeline E Picaro 9739039560 21 Hemlock Ave Newton NJ 07860 Michaeline Picaro executive director 45.00 20.00 X X 116400 0 0 116400 0 0 1 false false false 0 0 0 345895 0 0 0 345895 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 345895 0 0 0 X 66275 0 66275 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20200 0 20200 0 0 0 0 0 7850 0 7850 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3400 0 3400 0 fuel for electricty 21500 0 21500 0 operational expenses building expenses heat electric internet seeds animal feed volunteer supplies t 43650 0 43650 0 tractor farm truck maintenance fuel 17300 0 17300 0 180175 0 180175 0 6252 78125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 178529 6557 0 171972 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6252 250097 0 0 0 0 0 78125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78125 X 6252 171972 0 0 6252 171972 6252 250097 165720 0 0 0 0 0 X false false false X 0 0 0 0 345895 345895 0 0 0 0 345895 345895 271115 74780 345895 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 37529 0 0 37529 62000 0 0 62000 79000 0 6557 72443 0 0 0 0 171972 Part III, Line 4d | Description:, Expense Amount:, Grants Amount:, Revenue Amount:| High Mountain Preserve land survey for Munsee Ceremonial stone landscapes contract for michaeline picaro, $0, $0, $0| for year 1; Native Americans NA suffer from worse health poor nutrition reduced quality of life and shorter lifespans than their non-Native counterparts. 1 This is due mostly to disparate disease burdens inadequate education food instability disproportionate poverty loss of infrastructure and cultural practices as well as contaminated soils that grow traditional food sources. One out of four Native Americans experiences food insecurity compared to one out of eight Americans overall. 2 A combination of high rates of food insecurity poverty and little access to nutritional food has caused the quality of health among NA to plummet.3 In addition Indigenous populations continue to be exposed to disproportionate amounts of toxic waste as a product of environmental injustice. 4 Such is the case for the Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan Tribe in Ringwood New Jersey who live in homes inside a 500-acre Superfund site created by a decade of industrial dumping of thousands of gallons of paint sludge and other waste. 5 To date no culturally meaningful interventions have been implemented for the Ramapough Nation that could promote health and well-being. In addition the lack of federal recognition has deprived the Ramapough Nation of any benefits for which federally recognized Tribes qualify e.g. food distribution programs on Indian reservations. We propose to build on our equitable eight-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity and nutritional deficiency prevent disease and promote health. Thus it is hypothesized that a complex array of factors including living close by toxic contamination psychosocial stressors displacement and isolation have led to a loss of Native food sovereignty and sustainability; and that food security and cultural food practices can be renewed through community-engineered farming and educational strategies. Specific Aim 1: Assess the extent of environmental contamination individual toxicant burdens and micronutrient levels and health disorders in Ramapough Tribal members of both sexes. 1.a. Collect in-person online survey information on demographics health and food intake nutrition food security and psychosocial stressors and perform core anthropometric measurements i.e. height weight body mass index body circumference and blood pressure at enrollment on Tribal members to inform health promotion strategies and community actions. 1.b. Determine individual-level contaminant burdens and micronutrient concentrations e.g. iron calcium folate vitamins in urine and blood from surveyed sub-aim 1a Ramapough Turtle Clan volunteers. 1.c. Test soil plants and surface water where Turtle Clan residents live recreate and attend church in Ringwood NJ using a community-based citizen scientist approach. Specific Aim 2: Adapt and implement a community-centered farming program on the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm land informed by a design studio approach. 2.a. Facilitate consensus building activities to identify and prioritize best practices that promote food sovereignty sustainability and jointly create culturally- and traditionally-based environmental health and nutritional educational programs for community members leaders and citizen scientists. 2.b. Develop the farm site project for planting growing and recreational space using a design studio approach. Specific Aim 3: Assess the development process and early outcomes of the farm program using an implementation science framework and refine the public health action plan for dissemination to reduce food insecurity regain food sovereignty and improve community health. Impact and Public Health Action: This R2A project seeks to identify and implement safe and nutritious farming practices and restore food sovereignty among an environmentally-impacted and marginalized semiurban Tribal Nation through development of a farming system program supported by the Turtle Clan-founded Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm.6 This study will integrate a culturally-centered environmental road map created from community input for food sovereignty and sustainability that will be shared and disseminated to other environmentally-impacted Nations. We will use mixed methods and an implementation science framework to build best practices successful program components and cultural and traditional meaning for translation and dissemination to other Tribal communities leading to an environmental public health action plan based on our research findings. Collaborative strategies and implementation will be guided by a quote from the Ramapough Turtle Clan Chief who states that Return of healthy soil on our farm will allow healthy plant production resulting in healthy foods to nurture our bodies and mind with optimum results, $0, $0, $0| Building a multisectoral coalition is critical; the theory is that a diverse will create a local or statewide campaigns that build movement for jobs justice and climate action.grant 30,000 in toe 15,000 onstallments, $0, $0, $0| Improve Native American communities through organizing for advocacy and seek to improve policies and rules that impact the community 34,000, $0, $0, $0| Native Americans NA suffer from worse health poor nutrition reduced quality of life and shorter lifespans than their non-Native counterparts. 1 This is due mostly to disparate disease burdens inadequate education food instability disproportionate poverty loss of infrastructure and cultural practices as well as contaminated soils that grow traditional food sources. One out of four Native Americans experiences food insecurity compared to one out of eight Americans overall. 2 A combination of high rates of food insecurity poverty and little access to nutritional food has caused the quality of health among NA to plummet.3 In addition Indigenous populations continue to be exposed to disproportionate amounts of toxic waste as a product of environmental injustice. 4 Such is the case for the Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan Tribe in Ringwood New Jersey who live in homes inside a 500-acre Superfund site created by a decade of industrial dumping of thousands of gallons of paint sludge and other waste. 5 To date no culturally meaningful interventions have been implemented for the Ramapough Nation that could promote health and well-being. In addition the lack of federal recognition has deprived the Ramapough Nation of any benefits for which federally recognized Tribes qualify e.g. food distribution programs on Indian reservations. We propose to build on our equitable eight-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity and nutritional deficiency prevent disease and promote health. Thus it is hypothesized that a complex array of factors including living close by toxic contamination psychosocial stressors displacement and isolation have led to a loss of Native food sovereignty and sustainability; and that food security and cultural food practices can be renewed through community-engineered farming and educational strategies. Specific Aim 1: Assess the extent of environmental contamination individual toxicant burdens and micronutrient levels and health disorders in Ramapough Tribal members of both sexes. 1.a. Collect in-person online survey information on demographics health and food intake nutrition food security and psychosocial stressors and perform core anthropometric measurements i.e. height weight body mass index body circumference and blood pressure at enrollment on Tribal members to inform health promotion strategies and community actions. 1.b. Determine individual-level contaminant burdens and micronutrient concentrations e.g. iron calcium folate vitamins in urine and blood from surveyed sub-aim 1a Ramapough Turtle Clan volunteers. 1.c. Test soil plants and surface water where Turtle Clan residents live recreate and attend church in Ringwood NJ using a community-based citizen scientist approach. Specific Aim 2: Adapt and implement a community-centered farming program on the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm land informed by a design studio approach. 2.a. Facilitate consensus building activities to identify and prioritize best practices that promote food sovereignty sustainability and jointly create culturally- and traditionally-based environmental health and nutritional educational programs for community members leaders and citizen scientists. 2.b. Develop the farm site project for planting growing and recreational space using a design studio approach. Part VI, Section A, Line 8b No committee's Part VI, Section B, Line 11b we review this form via zoom and mail Part VI, Section B, Line 15 | Name of the Person:, The process used to establish compensation of the person who served in:|, The year in which this process was last undertaken:| Michaeline Picaro, we held a executive board meeting where discussion was had and agreed upon unanimously, 2022| Part VI, Section C, Line 19 yes we will provide within 5 days when asked. Part IX, line 11g | Description:, Amount:| RSK Electric Inc, $10000| Manual Alverez General contracting, $3200| charles paving, $7000|