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Cohosts Ian Saxine and Tiffany Link will discuss the Wabanaki history of the Pejepscot Portage, extending back thousands of years and into the present day, with Historian Joseph Hall (Bates College). They’ll examine what different sources can tell us about the Wabanaki past, and what a history of the Androscoggin River region that takes the role of Indigenous people seriously looks like.
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About the Hosts:
Tiffany Link is the Collections Curator at the Maine Historical Society in Portland.
Ian Saxine is Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater State University.
About the Guest:
Joseph Hall is Associate Professor of History at Bates College specializing in colonial and Native American history, and currently a historian for the Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project.
This program is paid for by proceeds from the Lisa Giguere & Ralph Tuttle Endowment Fund.