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-74- 011002.155 S.L.C. 2 [[table, 2 columns]] 1 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 | of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 | [[strikethrough]] That this Act may be cited as the "National American [[/strikethrough]] 4 | [[strikethrough]] Indian Museum and Memorial Act". [[/strikethrough]] 5 | [[strikethrough]] Sect. 102. The Congress finds that [[/strikethrough]] 6 | [[strikethrough]] (1) there is no national museum devoted exclusively [[/strikethrough]] 7 | [[strikethrough]] to the history and art of cultures indigenous to [[/strikethrough]] 8 | [[strikethrough]] North America, specifically Indians, Eskimos, and [[/strikethrough]] 9 | [[strikethrough]] Aleuts; [[/strikethrough]] 10 | [[strikethrough]] (2) although the Smithsonian Institution [[/strikethrough]] 11 | [[strikethrough]] employs 5,500 people, operates 14 museums and galleries [[/strikethrough]] 12 | [[strikethrough]] and 5 major research facilities, none of its institutions [[/strikethrough]] 13 | [[strikethrough]] are devoted to Native American art and history; [[/strikethrough]] 14 | [[strikethrough]] (3) the Museum of American Indian, Heye [[/strikethrough]] 15 | [[strikethrough]] Foundation, located in New York City, has an [[/strikethrough]] 16 | [[strikethrough]] unequalled assemblage of over 1,000,000 Indian art [[/strikethrough]] 17 | [[strikethrough]] objects and artifacts and is the largest such collection [[/strikethrough]] 18 | [[strikethrough]] in the world; [[/strikethrough]] 19 | [[strikethrough]] (4) the library of the Museum of the American [[/strikethrough]] 20 | [[strikethrough]] Indian houses 40,000 volumes relating to the archaeology, [[/strikethrough]] 21 | [[strikethrough]] ethnology, and history of Native American [[/strikethrough]] 22 | [[strikethrough]] peoples; [[/strikethrough]] 23 | [[strikethrough]] (5) the collection of the Museum of the American [[/strikethrough]] 24 | [[strikethrough]] Indian, Heye Foundation, of art, artifacts, specimens [[/strikethrough]] 25 | [[strikethrough]] and books is inadequately housed in 3 separate [[/strikethrough]]