"Get the Lead Out" with Doctor Chuck Stead

Living the Story: In this our final episode of the series, we focus on the cooptation of native culture, which is, in effect, the final Western cooptation of the indigenous community. As the Ramapoughs grapple with survival, they build a narrative of recovery. You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

Nature or Disney: Having recorded at the home of Cindy and Jeff Fountain for the last three episodes, we are left with a strong impression of the indigenous world of Animist Spirit. In this episode, we investigate the traditional story of Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

Muskrat Stories, with guest Cindy Fountain of the Ramapough Nation, Dr. Stead reflects upon his boyhood muskrat trapping and of a visit with Ramapough Keven Powell, who also trapped the little ‘musky’ along the banks of the Ramapo River. This introduces the idea of shapeshifting, which Fountain speaks of at length.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

In this episode, Dr. Stead asks us to consider the idea of being a Wounded Storyteller. He compares writer Arthur Frank’s objectives for being and coping with wounded story identity to the Ramapough's long history of being marginalized, demonized, and contaminated by industry. He suggests that it is their indigenous roots that give them the strength to sustain and to recover both their health and their identity. Guest: Chief Perry of Ramapough NationYou can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

In this episode, we visit the Good Sheppard Church and attend a service by pastor Stephen Rozzelle, who reminds us, “No slave can serve two masters!” We meet Clan's mother, Vivian Milligan, who brings us to her home and introduces us to her nephew Jack. Jack will lead us to the site of the Peter’s Mine, a hotbed of Ford Motor’s pollution. Guest: Chief of Ramapough Nation Dwaine Perry You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

Digging further into the Mann v. Ford documentary on the case by the same name, we get down to the skewed justice offered the Turtle Clan with Judge Jonathan Harris’s lop-sided case management. And at the end of the film’s premier the Turtle Clan are told they have now been given a ‘voice,’ and once again white interlopers congratulate themselves.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

We now investigate the dilemma of a ‘story as told by others’, with the premier of Mann v. Ford an HBO production in 2011, at the Ramapo College Berrie Center. This is a critical look at a less than satisfying legal action. Our guest Jan Barry will be with us for this and the next three episodes.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

Staff writers Mary Jo Layton and Barbara Williams worked on this installment, which puts a personal face on the victims of Toxic Legacy. Punctuated with Thomas Franklin’s photographs of families, children, and elders telling their story of survival against great odds, the narrative reveals a people determined to hold their place, indebted to their forbearers, and focused on recovery.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link:https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Pleaseremember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at:cstead@ramapo.edu

This first installment of the Toxic Legacy series was riveting and quickly became the talk of Bergen County. Jan Barry’s persistence had come to fruition and the story of the Ramapoughs plight poured into the hearts of Record readers. A humble man who shied away from the lime light, Barry had cut his teeth on the Agent Orange story he researched back in 1977.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

Acetone: The industrial solvent acetone, (also used in nail polish remover) was used in clearing out the gummed-up paint spray guns at Ford Motor Company, although it can evaporate this solvent was trapped in the ‘ever-flexible’ plasticizers of the paint sludge. Years later buried paint sludge releases this carcinogenic into the ground water, making the poisoned cocktail of chemicals Ford left behind even more dangerous.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

: Long before lead based paint was regulated in the market place, lead finishes were promoted as ‘safe, hygienic, and healthy’ by the Lead Industry of America. In this episode, Stead looks into the carcinogenic effects of lead paint and antimony, a lead alloy, which are the bounding agents in the Ford Toxic Waste dumped in the Ramapo Watershed.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

Having grown up with the New York State Thruway and as it was discovered tens of thousands of tons of Ford toxic waste from the Mahwah NJ plant, Chuck shares his research into the emergence and impact of the Thruway and the Ford Plant. At best Fordism was a successful profit-making management system, and at worse it was the undermining of the American workforce. You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

We continue our deep dive into Henry Ford, the American Industrialist, and examine the childhood roots of his deep-seated anti-Semitism. During his elaborately stage camp outings with notables Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, Ford shared his dark side and Burroughs made note of it.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu