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Recently, I attended an event lead by Dr. Chuck Stead called The Ramapough Mountain Guardians: Ecologial Restoration and the Recovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. This talk and presentation was located in the Alumni Center, in Norma Walker Hall. It was done on Monday, March 25th 4 to 5 pm. Dr. Chuck Stead has been an advocate on behalf of the Ramopough Lunnape Minsi nation for a while now. He witnessed first hand the degradation and environmental injustice that is pressed daily on the people of the land. He started an investigation into the dumping of hazardous wastes by Ford Motor Company. He lead a successful fight to uncover the actions of Ford Motor Company. He found lead paint traces all over the land of the Ramapough, which was later proved to be lead paint from Ford company dumping it there. Dr. Stead worked with many elders, particularly the Turtle Clan, to recover the impacted lands, as well as working with the Ramapo Government. He is a professional storyteller and is a professor at the Ramapo College of Mahwah, New Jersey where he currently teaches an Ecology class, as well as Society and the Sacred.

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