<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Wednesday, July 21, 2010<br><br>National Anthropological Archives Receives Grant from President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities<br><br>USA<br><br>WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives has received a $323,000 “Save America’s Treasures” grant from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The grant will ensure long-term preservation and better access to the Archives’ endangered-languages manuscripts. <br>
<br>The National Anthropological Archives is the nation’s principal repository of original documentation for spoken, endangered and extinct Native American languages. Approximately 250 American Indian languages are represented in the collection. For many of these languages documentation exists nowhere else. <br>
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