Chief Vince Mann

VMinfo Updated: Sept. 28, 2023

Chief Vincent Mann

        - Chief Mann is a recipient of the Russ Berrie Foundation’s highest award for his efforts, together with his people, to correct conditions resulting from the Ford toxic dumping. Working with NYU Institute of Environmental Medicine, he helped create a community health survey, and he has been at the forefront of protecting the drinking water used by four million people, as well as working in the area surrounding the Ringwood Mines Superfund site, formerly as a member of the Citizen Advisory Group. He also serves on the Legacy Council of the Highlands Coalition.

       Chief Mann also works to rebuild a church founded by Samuel Defreese, a Ramapough. The church, listed on the National Historic Registry as a Historic Native American Church, is one of two churches Ramapough communities attend.

        Chief Mann has been a guest speaker at Ramapo College in the Environmental Master's Program on pipelines and environmental justice and the University of Dayton in Ohio on the effects of toxic dumping on his people. As an advocate for cultural and environmental issues, he continues to this day to offer prayers for humanity and for our natural environment.

The Ramapough Lenape Nation encompasses Passaic County NJ, as well as Warwick and surrounding areas in southern New York and northern New Jersey.

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