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Seneca 5, Princeton 4: Liam Trzaskawka struck out six in 4 2/3 innings and Brayden Davis had a two-run single as Seneca (9-15, 6-6) defeated visiting Princeton (11-13, 3-4) in a nonleague game May 26.

Chase Ruppel had two hits, including a double, knocked in a run and scored a run as the Golden Eagles snapped a two-game losing streak and handed Princeton its fourth straight loss.

Nonleague

May 26, Tabernacle

Seneca 5, Princeton 4

Princeton – 001 120 0 – 4 6 2

Seneca – 101 300 X – 5 6 2

WP: Liam Trzaskawka; 2B: P-Alex Winters, Jaxon Petrone; S-Chase Ruppel.

Cherokee 7, Washington Township 5: Dylan Cruice and Jeremy Cheeseman belted two- and three-run home runs, respectively, as No. 6 seed Cherokee (19-7, 7-3) defeated visiting No. 11 Washington Township (11-13, 4-6) in a NJSIAA South Group 4 first-round playoff game June 1.

Winning pitcher Shane Sax, Danny Torres and Cheeseman combined to strike out 11 for the Chiefs, while Dom Patrizi had two hits, knocked in a run and scored a run to help the offense.

NJSIAA South Group 4 – First Round

June 1, Marlton

Cherokee 7, Washington Township 5

Township – 004 010 0 – 5 6 0

Cherokee – 160 000 0 – 7 8 0

WP: Shane Sax; LP: Sam Kaschak; 2B: C-Evan Brown; HR: WT-Jack Fitzpatrick, Jared Dziergowski; C-Dylan Cruice, Jeremy Cheeseman.

Millville 9, Lenape 1: David Rodriguez (3-for-3, run) and Connor Lacy (2-for-4) both knocked in three runs as No. 14 seed Millville (12-13, 6-6) upset No. 3 Lenape (18-6, 7-3) in a NJSIAA South Group 4 first-round playoff game June 1.

Andrew Shank’s RBI single scored Justin Figueroa in the fifth inning for the Indians’ only run.

Lenape, which beat the Thunderbolts, 6-4, on the road in the second game…

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Written by RuthAnn Purchase and Simon Purchase James

The Lenape Forest Garden at the Village of Fork Branch in Dover, Delaware is regeneration, reconnection, and decolonization in action. 

In the Lenape Forest Garden, we are learning how to remove invasive species and reintroduce native species that provide food, medicine, and materials for traditional lifeways, creating networks of reciprocal relationships, known to some as guilds or companion plantings. 

Last fall, John Heinz’s MobilizeGreen crew, the Appoquinimink High School Environmental Club and NPS Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance staff, and other volunteers joined us there for a work day. 

The day began with the Haudenausee tradition of Ohenton Karihwatehkwen, known in English as Greetings to the Natural World, Words Before All Other Words, or Thanks Giving Address, during which everyone present honored the inhabitants of Mother Earth as teachers and elder relatives.  

After a morning of work, the group settled down at the Sacred Story Circle, a space designed with Tribal Leaders to allow the stories of the 4 Directions to guide and rebalance our relationships.  Storytelling is usually reserved for the “Season of the Clacking Stones” when everyone in hibernation is striking stone against stone, making tools and baskets while waiting for the long nights and cold weather to pass.  That fall day, Chief White Otter Coker’s stories inspired the crew members to ask deeply thoughtful questions and commit themselves to planting native species everywhere they work.

Each plant guild around the Sacred Story Circle tells the stories of each direction.  White Flat Cedar greets us at the Eastern entrance, representing cleansing and new life; Evergreen Holly and Elderberry of the Northern guilds celebrate eternal life, wisdom, and healing. Designing the Lenape Forest Garden based on plants who grow together naturally helps us humans honor the families of plants who…

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Ramapough receive 285-year-old deed from descendants of Sloat family

Sloat family descendants return land use deed to Ramapough on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ.

Marsha A. Stoltz, NorthJersey.com

MAHWAH — A 285-year-old deed granting land use to members of the Sloat family was returned by its descendants to the Ramapough tribe in a symbolic ceremony at Ramapo College on Saturday.

Chief Dwaine Perry supervised the transfer of the deed between seventh generations before an audience of Ramapough and Sloat family members.

“We are grateful to the Rev. Jack Zamboni and his family for restoring our faith in the goodness of the American people as we received this unprecedented blessing of the original deed,” Perry said.  

The deed was returned by Zamboni, a maternal descendant of the Sloat family who is an Episcopal priest living in Dunellen.  His son, Jonathan, transferred the deed to seventh generation Ramapough member D.J. Defreese.

“This return does not cure the atrocities of genocide, land theft and slavery that indigenous people of this land experienced, which can never be made right,” Zamboni said. “However, repair work can be done so that settler and indigenous nations may start to live freely together here and now.”

Drums and chants preceded a brief tobacco ceremony blessing the transfer. Members gathered briefly afterward for pictures…

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