Genealogy Plus

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Topic — Iowa’s Ethnic Heritage, or “Who Do You Think We Are?”

Speaker — John Liepa, DMACC Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science

Beginning with the Ioway, one of 17 distinctive indigenous tribal groups, we’ll trace who we are as Iowans. From Spanish explorers and French trappers, traders and priests; to the dominant English, Germans and Irish; to Scandinavians, Dutch and Czechs, we’ll explore why they left their homelands and how they ended up in Iowa. African-Americans, Eastern Europeans and Hispanics have different stories to share along with other “newer” Iowans. This talk is personal and interactive and we’ll work together to discover who we are, and who we are becoming as Iowans.

PARTICIPATE IN PERSON OR ONLINE.

A Zoom link will be posted on this page before the event.

Presented in partnership with Ames Public Library and Story County Genealogical Society. Program funded by Humanities Iowa, a private, non-profit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the State Historical Society of Iowa.