Transportation Corridors as Vehicles for Cultural and Ecological Regeneration - Restorative Redevelopment of Devastated Ecocultural Landscapes - page 344

FIGURE 17.14 Road impacts extend far beyond the immediate right-of-way.

preferred alternatives sparked a ten-year stalemate between the Tribal government
and Montana Department of Transportation.

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Because of these long-standing and unsettled problems, the Tribes asked Jones &
Jones Architects and Landscape Architects to be their advocates in designing a new
highway that respected tribal values. As Grant Jones explained: “This is what rarely
gets spoken. There is a sense of place here, because there are spirits here in the land-
scape, in the ground. When does the spirit stop coming to a Place? Ask yourself: Will
the road, when it's built through the valley, drive the spirit away? What can I do so
the spirit is not driven away?”