1 Jan 1879 Jahr - Bureau of American Ethnology established by Congress
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Bureau of American Ethnology established by Congress for the purpose of archiving Indigenous records/materials. Bureau and Smithsonian sponsor "salvage anthropology" missions. Also a reflection of the myth of the vanishing Indian, belief that Native Americans were becoming an object of historical study.
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