TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blue Spruce,Duane
AU  - Thrasher,Tanya
TI  - The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
SN  - 9780807889787
AV  - E98.B7 -- L36 2008eb 
U1  - 973.04/97 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works
KW  - Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works
KW  - Landscape gardening -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works
KW  - National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) -- Buildings -- Pictorial works
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Remembering the Experience of Past Generations -- Honoring Our Hosts -- Cardinal Direction Markers: Bringing the Four Directions to NMAI -- Allies of the Land -- Always Becoming -- Landscape: Through an Interior View -- Stories of Seeds and Soil -- A Seasonal Guide to the Living Landscape -- Appendix 1: Selected Resources and Organizations -- Appendix 2: NMAI Plant List -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Sidebars -- Definitions of Beauty -- The Heron's Visit -- Preparing the Plants -- Sassafras -- Wild Rice -- Tobacco -- Understanding Our Place in Nature -- A Resounding Voice -- Facing Challenges and Maintaining Balance -- Indigenous Geography/Geografía Indígena
N2  - 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 season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Essays by Smithsonian staff and others involved in the museum's creation provide an examination of indigenous peoples' long and varied relationship to the land in the Americas, an account of the museum designers' efforts to reflect traditional knowledge in the creation of individual landscape elements, detailed descriptions of the 150 native plant species used, and an exploration of how the landscape changes seasonally. The Land Has Memory serves not only as an attractive and informative keepsake for museum visitors, but also as a thoughtful representation of how traditional indigenous ways of knowing can be put into practice
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=454803
ER  -