Book Chapter

STORIES OF SEEDS AND SOIL

GABRIELLE TAYAC, TANYA THRASHER

2009

Overview

Every plant, animal, and stone has a story to tell. This concept can be understood through the more than 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants; 40 massive boulders; and 4 Cardinal Direction Marker stones placed throughout the National Museum of the American Indian’s landscape. All were carefully selected, blessed with prayer and song, transported over thousands of miles, and thoughtfully re-oriented on the museum’s four-acre site. These living beings traveled by boat, helicopter, flatbed truck, and tractor-trailer, and when they arrived at the museum, they were tearfully and joyfully welcomed as long-absent relatives. Four hundred years ago, the Chesapeake Bay

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: Agricultural sciences / Agriculture / Agronomy / American history / animal life / Anthropology / Applied anthropology / Applied sciences / Behavioral sciences / Biological development / Biological sciences / Biology / Botany / Coarse grains / Corn / Crops / Cultural anthropology / Cultural Studies / Dendrology / Developmental biology / Earth sciences / Ethnic groups / Ethnology / European contact / Field crops / Food / Food crops / Food science / Foodstuffs / Geography / Grains / Growth and development / History of the Americas / indigenous culture / indigenous environment / Indigenous foods / Indigenous peoples / Land / Leaves / Museums & museology / Native culture / NMAI / Physical sciences / Plant development / plant life / Plant morphology / Plant reproduction / Plant vegetation / Plants / Rangelands / Seeds / Society and Culture / Squashes / Trees / Vegetables / Wetlands
• ISBN: 9780807859360, 0807859362, 9780807832646, 0807832642