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<p>No one was more fascinated by the rich variety of native languages than Thomas Jefferson.</p>
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<p>He dispatched countless deputies to the wilderness to gather
vocabularies and document speech. One of the key tasks for Lewis and
Clark on their great expedition was to detail and map their encounters
with native tongues, which resounded across the continent by the
hundreds.</p>
<p>Jefferson saw these languages as uniquely American, praised their
rhythms and their sounds - and predicted their inevitable extinction.
"Civilization" - backed by the muscular expansion of the United States -
could not be denied, he observed.</p>
<p>Jefferson was nothing if not a walking contradiction.</p>
<p>The somber final exhibition in the American Philosophical Society's
trio of exhibits on Jefferson, third president of the United States and
president of the scientific association (1797-1814), explores Jefferson
and native America.</p>
<p>"Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America" is on view in
the Philosophical Society's museum on Fifth Street, behind Independence
Hall, Thursday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m, until Dec. 30.</p><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20160804_Exhibit_on_Thomas_Jefferson_and_native_peoples_explores_paradoxical_president.html">http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20160804_Exhibit_on_Thomas_Jefferson_and_native_peoples_explores_paradoxical_president.html</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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