Research Catalog

Title

Spirit of a Native place : building the National Museum of the American Indian / [edited by Duane Blue Spruce].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, in association with National Geographic, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Blue Spruce, Duane
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Description

191 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

Duane Blue Spruce, (Laguna Pueblo) an architect and member of the American Indian Council of Architects and Engineers, served as primary liaison between the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the design team that built the museum on the National Mall. Before joining the museum staff in 1993, Duane worked as an assistant project manager at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He lives near Washington, D.C., with his wife, Ida Marx Blue Spruce, and their children, Miles and Milena.

Subject

• Ethnological museums and collections > District of Columbia
• Ethnological museums and collections > New York
• Ethnological museums and collections > Washington (D.C.)
• Indians of North America > Museums > District of Columbia
• Indians of North America > Museums > New York
• Indians of North America > Museums > Washington (D.C.)
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) > Buildings
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) > History
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center > Buildings
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center > History
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Washington (D.C.) > Buildings, structures, etc

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Cover title.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-191).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The way of the people / George Horse Capture -- As long as we keep dancing / W. Richard West, Jr. -- Carved by wind and water / Duane Blue Spruce : We want some of us in that building / Johnpaul Jones ; The land has a memory / Donna House ; Making our world understandable / Ramona Sakiestewa -- George Gustav Heye / Mary Jane Lenz -- A home for the collections / Liz Hill -- New York City in Indian possession / John Haworth -- "A most beautiful sight presented itself to my view" / Douglas E. Evelyn.

ISBN

0792282140

LCCN

^^2004054691

OCLC

55982001

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library