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of which will open in FY 1982.  Future major exhibitions presently in the preliminary planning stage include the history of American science and its role in our society (at the Museum of History and Technology), and a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with an exhibition drawing on 100 years of international sculpture.  At this point, a support level of $1,000,000 is considered adequate to continue to maintain an effective program over several years.

[[underlined]] Native American Program. [[/underlined]] The Smithsonian has long had an interest in the study of Native Americans.  This interest dates back to the creation of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879.  The Institution is presently updating its multi-volume research publication produced in those early years, the definitive [[underlined]] Handbook of North American Indians [[/underlined]].  In addition, the Institution conducts training programs for Native Americans related to the care and preservation of artifacts.  Over the years, the Smithsonian also has developed a sizable collection of Native American artifacts, now number approximately 800,000.  Through its exhibition programs, it has sought to display the experience of the Native American, principally in the Museum of Natural History/Museum of Man.

With this background and interest in mind, institutional management has determined that contemporary knowledge of Native Americans, including the most recent archeological, ethnographic, and historical findings (including art history) dictate that a major revision of present Institution exhibits be undertaken to redefine the history of these people.  The FY 1982 budget submission to the Office of Management and Budget contains a request for $500,000 to begin to produce up-to-date, well-researched, and well-designed exhibit is on the history and ethnolography of American Indians.

The Museum of History and Technology has traditionally treated American history as a field of study and exhibition whose starting point was the arrival of English settlers in the early 1600s.  This viewpoint is outdated and needs correction through remedial scholarship and new exhibitions.  A forthcoming major exhibition on George Washington and his times offers the Museum of History and Technology a welcome challenge to begin this process by preparing a separate but complementary exhibition examining the relationships between our founding fathers and the Native Americans.  This exhibition would be the first series on American Indian history at the Museum of History and Technology.

The Museum of Natural History/Museum of Man presently devotes four balls to the portrayal of Native American culture.  These exhibitions were mounted in the 1950s and, in most instances, are outdated in terms of our current knowledge and exhibit techniques.  This new program offers an opportunity to redo these halls to provide a series of informative and relevant presentations on the American Indian.  The first Museum of Natural History exhibition will focus on the cultures of various North American groups from their earliest times to present day and will draw upon the extensive archeological and ethnographic materials in the Museum.  The exhibit will trace early development, migration, intertribal relations and initial contact with Europeans.

In addition to revamping the Institution's Native American exhibits, discussions initiated by the Heye Foundation/Museum of the American Indian in New York, and encouraged by several Members of Congress, might in future years result