Apropos of the other discussion, if you start arguing that some viewpoints
don't "deserve" to survive, then you must argue that everything touched by
Powell needs to be de-accessioned.  He was poisoned by racism and he spread
racist ideas.  He believed that the "Indians" were as a group a lower form
of life than "White People."  He wrote books explaining that Indians were
"barbarians" (above savages but below "civilized" [i.e. white] people).  He
went west to explore, sure ... but wasn't that just part of the effort to
"deaccession" the Indians' land from the barbarians for the use of
civilized people?

You can go down this road, as we tend to reflexively do these days.  But
those of you who are the guardians of knowledge have a huge
responsibility.  If you decide that any one group of disfavored people is
too poisoned with wrong thought to survive, then you decide that no
knowledge survives.  Because that rule condemns all of us.  Sooner or later
we are all not right-thinking ... or thought to be not right-thinking.
Following the rule that the suspected-not-right-thinking must be wiped out,
and soon all knowledge, all history, will be swept away.

And the forces of ignorance and darkness--abetted by the
right-thinking--will laugh that we have de-accessioned ourselves.

Brad

*Caveat Lector:  I dictate a lot of my e-mails and can't always go back and
edit, so sometimes they come out as gibberish.  Autocomplete also sometimes
thinks that I'm speaking Spanish and inserts inapposite words.  Rest
assured it's the software, not creeping dementia.  *


On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 4:00 PM Redmond, Edward James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Powell was not only a geographer but a map collector.   According to a
> typescript note with the map, Powell had a map entitled “Plan of My Farm
> On Little Hunting Creek…by GW…1766
> <https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3882m.ct000085/>” in his possession.
>    Although the provenance is not 100% clear we believe the map was in
> Washington’s library at the time of his death and was then inherited by
> Bushrod Washington.
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> In September 1902 John Wesley Powell died.  In  February 1903, only a few
> months later,  Mrs. Powell donated the map to the Library of Congress
> Geography and Map Division.  The typescript note indicates that “it was
> Major Powell’s wish to donate the map to the Library of Congress”.
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> *From:* Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> *On Behalf
> Of *Angela R Cope
> *Sent:* Monday, April 01, 2019 11:05 AM
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> *Subject:* 150th anniversary of the Powell Expedition
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> The U.S. Geological Survey and partnering organizations are celebrating
> the 150th anniversary of the Powell Expedition, an exploration of the Green
> and Colorado Rivers that ended in the Grand Canyon. Led by scientist and
> Civil War amputee John Wesley Powell, a team of 10 men in four small wooden
> boats departed Green River Wyoming on May 24, 1869. Only six men and two
> boats completed the 95-day journey, but the expedition succeeded in
> recording some of the earliest known maps, data, topographic measurements,
> geology, and local Native American culture, for much of the treacherous
> Colorado River that runs through modern-day Grand Canyon National Park.
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> Powell later became the second director of the U.S. Geological Survey as
> well as the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first director of the
> Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, and a co-founder of the
> National Geographic Society.
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> The USGS continues to do important science along the river and to
> contribute information to decision-makers who are working to manage the
> river basin as a resource for water, recreation, and power in Western
> states. The focus of the education and outreach efforts surrounding the
> Powell150 Expedition is to inform and engage the public around the geology
> and ecology of rivers in general and this river system in particular and to
> raise public awareness of the natural resources of the Colorado River Basin.
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