The museum -- a 10-story, cantilevered edifice suggesting a mesa with a cascading brook, indigenous landscaping (from corn bed to marshland), and a cladding of desert-toned Kasota limestone -- opens in September and is likely to be the last Smithsonian attraction built on the National Mall.
People care more for environments considered to be "uniquely theirs" (Chipeniuk 1998); this attachment is usually with indigenous landscapes, rather than to flora and fauna of the region (Chipeniuk 1998).
This case affords insights at the unique confluence of indigeneity and urbanization, prompting us to coin the construct "urban-indigenous therapeutic landscapes" to characterize such sites.
Results are interpreted in terms of urban Indian health organizations as urban-indigenous therapeutic landscapes.
He deeply loved the American west for its history, art, indigenous culture and landscape.
Scores of east coast painters travelled there each summer, and their touring exhibitions opened the nation's eyes to the indigenous cultures and landscape of the south-west.
He realised that the presence of indigenous peoples, the landscape, water and ecosystems meant that it could not and should not be settled as the Eastern states had been.
In the twentieth century it came to be regarded as an invasive, exotic species that threatened indigenous plants and landscapes.
Indigenous knowledges of landscapes have not often explicitly informed GIS analyses in archaeology, even though archaeologists and indigenous communities around the world are forging collaborative relationships.
The techniques and methods of zooarchaeology are essential to an historical ecology that has emerged as a powerful perspective for understanding indigenous peoples and landscapes of the neotropics, both in the present and the past.
