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987606
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b741976
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The land has memory : : indigenous knowledge, native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian /\ edited by Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xv, 166 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0807889784
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: 1469606011
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: 9780807889787
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: 9781469606019
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0807832642
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0807859362
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9780807832646
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9780807859360
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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 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.
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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)-- Buildings
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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
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Ethnobotany-- Washington (D.C.), Pictorial works.
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Indians of North America-- Ethnobotany-- Washington (D.C.), Pictorial works.
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Landscape gardening-- Washington (D.C.), Pictorial works.
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Buildings.
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Ethnobotany.
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Indians of North America-- Ethnobotany.
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Landscape gardening.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- Native American Studies.
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Washington (D.C.)
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| Dewey Classification
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973.04/97
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E98.B7L36 2008eb
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Blue Spruce, Duane.
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Thrasher, Tanya.
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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
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