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i Postcard I *rom I The Pines -"OlX 1 By Terrence D. Moore, 1 Executive Director of the f New Jersey Pinelands Commission. 1 'C™ »C1 scy r n v.umiuissiuii.

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Where is the site of what some believe was the first Indian reservation in the United States' Oklahoma, perhaps, or-^was it New Mexico? /HowNjbout the New Jereey Pineunds? In 1758 the cotohial government took title to 3,044 akres "in trust for the Indiansvhving south of the Raritan River." Called Brotberton by its founder, the site of the reservation is the present day village of Indian Mills in Shamong Township, Burlington l^enni Lenape Indians, #.often called "the Delawares", woe settled at the reservation, attempted farming, and operated saw and grist mills and a blacksmith shop. ADJUSTING TO the change in lifestyle from their previously seminomadic existence proved to be difficult for the Indians. In 1802 virtually all departed to join the Oneida in western New YorirState. Due to continual* movements, their descendants became absorbed by other tribes. A few can now be found in places like Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Great stories have been told of those that chose' to remain in the Brotherton area. They involve the cleverness of Elisha Ashatama, the mishaps 9 the «last chieftain Joh| Moore (no relation), ana the local basket seller called Indian Ann who has special marker on her grave in Tabernacle's Methodist cemetary. LOCAL LEGEND has it ' that Ashatama once suggested to a nearby farmer* that he would survive the winter nicely with a donation of the farmer'^ fermented cider. The farmer responed that Ashatama could have all* that he could flbur and | carry in a wicker basket. The Indian returned the next day with a basket that had been dipped in a creek causing an ice coating to close off the porous spaces. I am told that Ashatama survived the winter warmly, inside and out. Job Moore finally met his, end by stepping in the way of a 4 team of horses. THE DEMISE of Brotherton signaled the end _of a rich relationship between the Indians and the pines, a relationship which only recently has come to light.

Until a few years ago most archaeologists believed that Indians rarely inhabited the Pinelands except for brief hunting ex- - petitions or travel to reach other locations. Today, over 1,000 sites of archaeological interest have been discovered, and this perhaps only scratches the surface of the wealth of knowledge to be gained about Indians in Southern New Jersey. The best known site is an Indian burial ground at Savice Farm in Marlton. INDIANS, OF course, did traverse the Pines. A network of trails provided access to favored destinations. Many trails ran along rivers such as the Great Egg Harbor and Tuckaboe. Archaeological sites have been found near the Maurice and Rancocas Rivers as well. The Shamong Trail was a major artery connecting northern to southern locations - terminating in Cape May. Interestingly, the trail system often led to coastal areas where large shell piles attest to the Indian preference for seafood dinners. The seasonal trek to the Jersey Shore seems to have been as popular then as it is today. A PLAN to protect sites of importance to our , understanding of the Indian's acvtivities in the Pinelands is about to be ^ Rafted. is important to know of Triw discoveries' by residents of the Pines who ' find an arrowhead, broken pieces of pottery, or other evideace if Indian presence. Artifacts should not be removed from the location of' the discovery because knowledge often can be JfciQed from how they are tJUtod in the soil, ^sjrould you be lucky enough to be the first to sight an object that was last seen by the Indian who leff^it there two or three hundred years ago, give the Pinelands Commission a call. Our archaelolgists will be over to enjoy the discovery with you. 4 Next Time: Iron and glass If you have any questions or comments about the column, please contact Terrence Moore or Bob Bernbridge at the Pinelands Commission office.

Our Readers Write Trapped Families

The forces conspiring to disperse the Japanese family are formidable. Overcompetitive educational and work environments make unreasonable demands on children and husbands and pull them even farther from home. Japan's educational system draws children away from their parents by promoting a breathless schedule Of afterschool classes and activities. Similarly, our work system snatches the breadwinner from his family by amigning him to distant posts and forcing him to work overtime. It discourages him from taking paid vacations and obliges him to spendfaaweetatds with co-workers instead of with his wife and ehildr^T Families trapped in this sort of situ^timfar^powerless to extricate themselves by their own efforts alone. Government and business should feSlize that they have a stake in restoring the priority of the family unit. Whatever the structure of the houa^dd; extended or nuclear, a healthy home envinmmoU the source of a sound work force and a productive, law*bk&ng citizenry. — Tsuneo Yamane, Komazawa University professor of sociology, in an article on the breakdown of the Japanese family in'the daily Tokyo SMimbun. '

I — County Libraiw — , | by Kathleen Duffy [ V *

j / i The New York Times on-" | Monday, Aug. 13, reported on a survey conducted toy William J. Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities "after he was asked in a meeting with reporters this summer whether there were some books that every student in the country might reasonably be expected to have studied before he or she graduates from high school." The works of Shake s pea re. The Declaration of Independence ( U.S. ), Huckleberry Finn and the Bible lead the list of works that every high school student ought to be required to read, in the opinion of some scholajfk, journalists, teachers and governmental and cultural leaders. "Responses from 325 people surveyed informally and unscientifically were compiled, 73 replying to Bennett's letter, 84 to an article that George F. Will, the syndicated columnist, devoted to the project and 168 high school teachers who took part in a summer seminars sponsored by the Government Agency arid the Mellon Foundation." INTERESTINGLY, no book published in the last 30 years made the list. "Shakespeare's plays, especially "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" were the only works listed by a majority of the participants — 71 per cent. Fifty per cent cited such documents of U.S. history as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Next came "Huckleberry Finn ", the Bible and these works of literature, philosophy and politics : The "Odyssey: and "Iliad" by Homer • "Great Expectations" and "A tole of Two Cities" "The Republic" by Plato "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck "The Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne "Oedipus" by Sophocles "Moby Dick" by Melville "1984" by Orwell Thoreau's "Walden" The poems of Robert Frost "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman I 'The Great Gatsby", F Scott Fitzgerald "The Canterbury Tales ', Chaucer "The Communist Manifesto" "Politics" by Aristotle The poems of Emily Dickinson "Crime and Punishment " by DostoyevskyThe novels of Faulkner 'The Catcher in the Rye" by J D. Salinger "Democracry in America" by De tocqueville

-- "Pride and Prejudice" by i ^Jane Austen The essays and poems of i Emerson "The Prince" by Machiavelli : "Paradise Lost" by Milton "War and Peace ' by i tolstoy i "Aeneid" by Virgil i AN INTERESTING and provocative list of titles, I each with an interesting i history and each a classic. I i myself would have left out "Pride and Prejudice" and recommended that U.S. pstory classes that would rise Dumas Malone's six volume biography of Thomas Jefferson would have a much better foundation in the beginnings of this country than any text currently in use One of the comments in the New York Times ar^ele states, "Some of those who were surveyed objected to the project on the grounds that many high school students were not equippedv , (o handle such sophisticated reading material". The bulk of my education

took place jn the late 50's and 60's and Lwas taught or read all but six of the listed titles, and by no means consider myself or am considered by others a genius. 1 wonder if a study showing the dfcline of teaching the classics in the 60 s when education had to be "relevant" coincides with the of the current crisis in education and reading levels. BY ELIMINATING books with meaty or weighty ideas and replacing them with pablum, you can not foster the questioning mind, the reading and literate popula tion on which this country is founded I found it most interesting while compiling a booklist for Banned Book Week (Sept 8-15), all or most of the recommended titles have been at some time or another censored or persecuted. Perhaps another title to be aclded to the list would be Sinclair Lewis's Nobel Acceptance Speech as the first American to win the Nobel

Literature Prize — entitled "The American' Fear of Literature" A recent article in the New Republic on tlje "Decline of Oratory" remarked that ih the 18th century we quoted the classics, the 19th century we quoted the Bible, in the 20th N Century we quoted each other and whAf'' do the politicans of today quote — % "Where's the Beef "today's youth looks upon reading as solely school related; they are the television generation Not that many years ago a reference made in a speech or a novel to Balaam's ass would have been recognized by a ma jority of Americans today you must refer to television commercials if you wish to employ a common allusion Is the answer to lower ex pectations and replace great literature or to make the young stretch their minds'' I'm a firm believer in mind stretching. Stretch yours by reading at least one of the * recommended books you previously missed "V

(§) tanned Books Wee*. September 8-15, 1984 Co-sponeoed by American uemry » mac iWy AMoosbonot American PuMahsn American Sooeryot JoumefeMs end Authors Endorsed by T»* Center lor tie Book Don? take the Fim Amendment for granted! .

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