The land has memory : indigenous knowledge, native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian / edited by Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blue Spruce, Duane.

Thrasher, Tanya.

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Ethnobotany--Washington (D.C.)--Pictorial works.

Indians of North America.

Ethnobotany--Washington (D.C.)--Pictorial works.

Ethnobotany.

Landscape gardening--Washington (D.C.)--Pictorial works.

Landscape gardening.

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)--Buildings--Pictorial works.

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit, carefully created to reflect indigenous ways of thinking about the land and its uses. Abundantly illustrated, The Land Has Memory offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every

Contents:

Introduction : remembering the experience of past generations / Johnpaul Jones

Honoring our hosts / Duane Blue Spruce

Cardinal direction markers : bringing the four directions to NMAI / James Pepper Henry and Kristine Brumley

Allies of the land / Gabrielle Tayac

Always becoming / Nora Naranjo-Morse

Landscape : through an interior view / Kathleen Ash-Milby

Stories of seeds and soil / Gabrielle Tayac and Tanya Thrasher

A seasonal guide to the living landscape / Marsha Lea

Appendix 1 : selected resources and organizations

Appendix 2 : NMAI plant list.

Notes:

"Published in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-306-6

979-88-908826-9-1

1-4696-0601-1

0-8078-8978-4

OCLC:

646811427