Indian Linguistic Families of America North on Mexico (pp.7-139, 1 Map. In: pocket of the end of the volume.

Powell, John Wesley

Publication Date: 1891

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Annual Report 7 of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886. - Ed. Dir. J.W. Powell. - Washington, Goverment Printing Office, 1891, 4°, XLI, 409 pp., 39 Abb., 37 Taf., orig. Leinenband. First Edition! Content of the Accompanying papers: Powell, J.W.: Indian LinguisticPwell, J.W.: Indian Linguistic of America North of Mexico. Hoffman, W.J.: The Mide Wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa. Mooney, James: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the U.S. Geological Survey (1881-1894) and proposed, for development of the arid West, policies that were prescient for his accurate evaluation of conditions. He became the first director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution during his service as director of the U.S. Geological Survey, where he supported linguistic and sociological research and publications. "Powell became the director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in 1879 and remained so until his death. Under his leadership, the Smithsonian published an influential classification of North American Indian languages." wiki.

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• Title: Indian Linguistic Families of America North on Mexico (pp.7-139, 1 Map. In: pocket of the end of the volume.
• Publication Date: 1891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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