0001| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 80
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0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| NICK L. SALAZAR
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0008| FOR THE INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
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0010| A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011| REQUESTING CONGRESS TO CONTINUE ANNUAL OPERATIONAL FUNDING FOR
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0012| THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS.
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0013|
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0014| WHEREAS, the institute of American Indian arts was
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0015| chartered by congress in 1962 as a bureau of Indian affairs
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0016| school for the purpose of studying, promoting the practice of
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0017| and ensuring continuity of the artistic and cultural
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0018| traditions of American Indians and Alaska natives; and
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0019| WHEREAS, in 1988, the institute of American Indian arts
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0020| became an independent, federally chartered, nonprofit
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0021| institution; and
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0022| WHEREAS, the state of New Mexico recognizes that having
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0023| the institute of American Indian arts located in Santa Fe is
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0024| beneficial to the state, to the Native American population of
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0025| the state and to the art community in New Mexico; and
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0001| WHEREAS, the institute is unique to the western
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0002| hemisphere, having drawn students from nearly all of the five
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0003| hundred forty-seven recognized Indian tribes in the country
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0004| during its thirty-six years of teaching; and
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0005| WHEREAS, this is the most critical period of the
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0006| institute's history, since it has suffered a forty-seven
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0007| percent budget cut in federal support over the past three
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0008| years; and
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0009| WHEREAS, from its earliest days, Santa Fe has been a hub
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0010| of commercial activity centered around the Native American
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0011| population; and
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0012| WHEREAS, today many artists who participate in the Santa
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0013| Fe Indian art community are graduates of the institute of
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0014| American Indian Arts contributing substantially to Santa Fe's
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0015| status as the second largest arts market in the country; and
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0016| WHEREAS, the economic importance of Indian art in Santa
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0017| Fe is expressed by the negative outcry raised each time there
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0018| is mention of moving the Indian market from the immediate
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0019| Santa Fe area; and
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0020| WHEREAS, due to its federally chartered status, the
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0021| institute of American Indian arts is seeking appropriations
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0022| from congress to continue the school's annual operations;
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0023| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0024| STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico congressional
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0025| delegation and the president of the United States be requested
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0001| to support the full operational funding of the institute of
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0002| American Indian arts and to continue funding the operations of
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0003| the institute through federal appropriations into the next
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0004| century; and
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0005| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that congress and the president be
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0006| requested to consider providing capital funding to the
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0007| institute of American Indian arts so that its new campus can
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0008| be completed by the year 2000; and
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0009| BE IF FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0010| transmitted to the president of the United States, the New
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0011| Mexico congressional delegation and to the board of trustees
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0012| of the institute of American Indian arts.
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