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DRAFT   5/1/89

A BILL

To authorize the establishment of teh National Museum of the American Indian within the Smithsonian Institution, and for other purposes.

[[underlined]] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled [[/underlined]], that there is established within the Smithsonian Institution the National Museum of the American Indian (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "Museum") to

(a) collect, preserve, study, and exhibit all things connected with the anthropology of the indigenous people of North, South, and Central America, including objects of artistic, historic, literary, and scientific interest;

(b) advance the study of anthropology, particularly in connection with that of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and the study of their languages, literature, history, art, and life;

(c) advance programs of research and study; and

(d) provide means for carrying on this work in the District of Columbia, the State of New York, and elsewhere as may be appropriate.

Sec.102. (a) The area bounded by Third Street, Maryland Avenue, Independence Avenue, Fourth Street, and Jefferson Drive, Southwest, in the District of Columbia is hereby appropriated to the Smithsonian Institution as the permanent site of a building for the Museum.