Join us as Mary Ellen Lepionka discusses the Indigenous people of Ipswich, detailing who they were, where they came from (and when), how they were making a living, and what really happened during the Contact Period.  The discussion will also examine where the descendants of the Indigenous people of Ipswich are now.

Mary Ellen Lepionka of Gloucester is a retired anthropologist, college instructor, author, and textbook editor researching the archaeology and indigenous history of Essex County from the last Ice Age to around 1700. Her articles and essays on local indigenous history appear in the Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, the Journal of the New England Antiquities Research Association, and on the websites capeannhistory.org, historicipswich.org, enduringgloucester.com, and capeannslavery.org.

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