Significant progress has already been made with the information available through the Heye Center's Resource Center and the use of interactive and computer-based techniques. The Museum will make its vast collection accessible so that it can be used by Native and non-Native communities, museums, libraries and schools throughout the United States. In this way, native Americans can strengthen their ties to the past, even as they lay the ground for a more prosperous and vital future. Despite what many people think, Indian cultures did not vanish with the buffalo. Like the buffalo itself, they have survived tenaciously against all attempts to eradicate them.
Indian cultures thrive today in many exciting forms.