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Johnpaul Jones is a co-director of Jones and Jones Architects + Landscape Architects + Planners located in Seattle , Washington . Jones, the son of a Welsh-American father and a mother of Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. He spent his early years in the family’s tenant farmhouse on the outskirts of the town of Okmulgee , the capital of the Creek Nation (located in rural Oklahoma ). “In those days Indians couldn’t live in town, and neither could blacks.”
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Jones, J. (2018). Standing in Our Indigenous Ways and Beliefs: Designing Indigenous Architecture in North America over Four Decades. In: Grant, E., Greenop, K., Refiti, A., Glenn, D. (eds) The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6904-8_27
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