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“The Ramapough and the Ringwood Mines Superfund Site – History, Culture, Education, and Environmental Justice,” is a New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) funded project that our faculty member Anita Bakshi directs. It focuses on illustrating the connections between scientific data, environmental remediation reports, and personal narratives of the cultural and spiritual traditions of the Ramapough community living in what is now the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site. Our Land, Our Stories, the book and the exhibition that resulted from the project, includes visualizations of traditional Lenape stories and imaginative design proposals for memorials that mark environmental losses.