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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, [2008]
©2008

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xv, 166 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 plantings that surround other museums on the National Mall, the landscape 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 season as w.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) -- Buildings -- Pictorial works.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Buildings.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany.
Washington (D.C.)
Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Ethnobotany.
Landscape gardening -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Blue Spruce, Duane.
Thrasher, Tanya.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Other Form: Print version: Land has memory. 1st ed. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, ©2008 (DLC) 2008027785
ISBN 9780807889787 (electronic book)
0807889784 (electronic book)
9781469606019 (electronic book)
1469606011 (electronic book)
0807832642
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0807859362
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