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

TitleLand Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsTanya Thrasher, Duane Blue Spruce
PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
ISBN Number978-0-8078-8978-7
Abstract

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.

Short TitleLand Has Memory