The Land Has Memory

The Land Has Memory
Author :
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 185
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807889787
ISBN-13 : 0807889784
Rating : 4/5 (784 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Land Has Memory by : Duane Blue Spruce

Download or read book The Land Has Memory written by Duane Blue Spruce and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Land Has Memory Related Books

The Land Has Memory
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Duane Blue Spruce
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 r
Memory Lands
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Christine M. DeLucia
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-09 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s Wa
My Native Land Is Memory
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Oliva M. Espín
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-20 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Northern Light
Language: en
Pages: 137
Authors: Kazim Ali
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-09 - Publisher: Milkweed Editions

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An examination of the lingering effects of a hydroelectric power station on Pimicikamak sovereign territory in Manitoba, Canada. The child of South Asian migran
The Memory of Fire
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Callie Bates
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-05 - Publisher: Del Rey

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Callie Bates’s debut novel, The Waking Land, announced the arrival of a brilliant new talent in epic fantasy. Now, with The Memory of Fire, Bates expertly dee