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Introduction: Remembering the Experience of Past Generations Get access

Johnpaul Jones
in The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Published: 01 February 2009
...The Introduction describes how the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) came into being. Through consultations with hundreds of Native elders, artists, educators, and other professionals spanning the entire Western Hemisphere, the aim was to create a building and surrounding habitat...
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Stories of Seeds and Soil Get access

Gabrielle Tayac and Tanya Thrasher
in The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Published: 01 February 2009
...This chapter looks at the influence of the animal and plant life on the surrounding landscape of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). This is illustrated by the 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants; 40 massive boulders; and 4 Cardinal Direction Marker stones that were placed...
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Always Becoming Get access

Nora Naranjo-Morse
in The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Published: 01 February 2009
...This chapter presents a poetic interpretation of the history and tendering of the landscape where the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is now situated. It looks at the lives of the Native Americans who have resided in the past and who reside there now. “Always Becoming” poem Naranjo...
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The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian

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

Duane Blue Spruce (ed.) and Tanya Thrasher (ed.)
Published online: 24 July 2014
Published in print: 01 February 2009
... 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. This book offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself...
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Honoring Our Hosts Get access

Duane Blue Spruce
in The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Published: 01 February 2009
...The process of creating something is as important as the object being created for Native people. That was the spirit that the creators of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) wanted to honor in the building of the museum. This chapter looks at the first steps that were taken...
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Allies of the Land Get access

Gabrielle Tayac
in The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Published: 01 February 2009
...The Native landscape where the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) now resides has changed, declined, and emerged in recovery since the time of English colonization. The land recalls history and remembers. This chapter looks far back into history of the land where Washington, D.C. now...
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Landscape: Through an Interior View Get access

Kathleen Ash-Milby
in The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Published: 01 February 2009
...This chapter looks at depictions of the landscape and environment by Native artist around where the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is situated. The artists' relationship to the land is multilayered, encompassing personal and collective memory, history, and narrative. Their sources...
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A Seasonal Guide to the Living Landscape Get access

Marsha Lea
in The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Published: 01 February 2009
...This chapter looks at the landscape around the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) today and how it changes through the seasons. There is no one best season to tour the NMAI landscape. Every time of year offers its own particular treasures. The chapter charts each season in turn to show...