The Land Has Memory : Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian /

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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 aro...

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Corporate Author: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Other Authors: Thrasher, Tanya, Blue Spruce, Duane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) > Buildings > Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening.
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany.
Ethnobotany.
Buildings.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Jardins > Architecture > Washington (D.C.) > Ouvrages illustres.
Ethnobotanique > Washington (D.C.) > Ouvrages illustres.
Landscape gardening > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Ethnobotany > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Washington (D.C.)
Ouvrages illustres.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
illustrated books.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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