This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
-93- 011002.155 S.L.C. 21 1 | concerned many Indian tribes and bands who are 2 | determined to provide an appropriate resting place for 3 | their ancestors; 4 | (11) a national memorial should be constructed 5 | in a suitable location on the Mall in the District of 6 | Columbia for the purpose of – 7 | (A) commemorating and memorializing 8 | those Indian nations that have disappeared in 9 | the process of European settlement on this 10 | continent, and 11 | (B) recognizing the Indian tribes and 12 | nations that live on their ancestral lands within 13 | the United States and acknowledging their 14 | historical contribution to American society; 15 | (12) an extraordinary site on the National Mall 16 | in the District of Columbia (U.S. Government 17 | Reservation No. 6) which has been reserved for the use of 18 | the Smithsonian Institution is available for 19 | construction of a suitable building to permanently house the 20 | collection of the National Museum of the American 21 | Indian, and to temporarily house that portion of the 22 | collection of the Museum of the American Indian, 23 | Heye Foundation, on loan to the National Museum 24 | of the American Indian;