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NATIVE LANDSCAPE Ladybug Releases
Friday, June 16, 2006, 10 a.m.
Friday, July 7, 2006, 10 a.m.
Friday, July 28, 2006, 10 a.m.
Friday, August 18, 2006, 10 a.m.

Meet at the museum's south entrance (on Maryland Avenue near 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW).

This agricultural technique is an eco-friendly and fun way to control pests in the museum's landscape. Presented by the staff of the NMAI and the Smithsonian's Horticulture Services Division.

Weather permitting.

Celebrate Horses and Native Cultures Publication Lecture for NMAI's new book: A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures
Saturday, July 8, 2006, 1 p.m.

Rasmuson Theater

Editors George P. Horse Capture (A'aninin) and Emil Her Many Horses (Lakota) will give a slide show based on their beautiful, new illustrated book, A Song for the Horse Nation. Essays, stories, and poems as well as more than 60 color photographs of such items as saddles, bridles, beaded blankets, horse masks, ledger drawings, painted shields, and horse dance sticks�all from the NMAI's collection�provide an intimate view of the central role of horses in Plains Indian cultures.

Book signing in the Potomac Atrium follows the program.

Invention on the Mall: Meet Composer Raven Chacon
Saturday, August 5, 2006, 1 & 3 p.m.

Conference Center (Rooms 4018-4019), Fourth Level

Raven Chacon (Navajo), a composer and performer, talks about inventive aspects various electronic instruments and devices he has adapted for his compositions, including a Theremin/guitar, 4-track recorder delay device, and even a Sony Walkman, and demonstrates them in mini-performances. Presented in conjunction with "Invention on the Mall," sponsored by the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History.

"Invention on the Mall" is a Smithsonian-wide celebration, led by the Lemelson Center, examining the breadth and diversity of invention and innovation from a variety of artistic, scientific, pre-Columbian, and pre-historic perspectives. "Invention on the Mall" will explore the universal nature of invention through programs at the National Museum of American History and other participating Smithsonian museums featuring their unique collections and scholarship.