Powell Asked to Oversee Census of Indians

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Summary

Major John Wesley Powell, who heads the Bureau of Ethnology, is asked by General Walker to oversee the work of taking the census of the Indians for the census of 1880.

Subject

  • Powell, John Wesley 1834-1902
  • Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1880. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1881, p. 62.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1880

Topic

  • Cooperation
  • Interagency Relations
  • Anthropology
  • Ethnology
  • Census

Place

North America

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