ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
*****************************************************************************

Hi Katherine,

Thanks for the suggestion, what a great idea. Back on the hard 
plastic chairs in the public library! No. really, I like it a lot.

Cheers,
Peter


------------------------------

Date:    Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:42:00 -0600
From:    Katherine Paronto <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: medicine wheels & astronomy- one last suggestion

ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
*****************************************************************************

I have one more small suggestion...how about having a modern native
person telling the story?  One of the major complaints of the Native
American community is that they are always portrayed as they were a
hundred years ago.  You could have the story teller roar up to the fire
on his snowmobile or even better, have a few people around a regular
kitchen table telling the story.

Katherine Patterson-Paronto


Peter Davis wrote:

>  ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
>  Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related
>  institutions.
>  *****************************************************************************
>
>
>  Thank you very much for your responses. They were indeed very helpful
>  and pushed me further in a direction I was leaning towards anyway.
>
>  I will most likely avoid bringing in medicine wheels as a major
>  element of the Native part of the Night Sky focus. It may be a good
>  opportunity to do a field trip and have a number of people listening
>  to a Native guide for a while.
>
>  Right now, I envision a Sky Story Telling by a Native around a bonfire
>  (in the freezing Canadian winter night - doesn't that sound
>  appetizing?). And a similar (or maybe joint?) event  could be arranged
>  with telling the ancient Greek stories behind the constellations. I'd
>  be quite happy to leave these stories as a cultural, oral tradition
>  and not to try to squeeze any science into them. That can be done at a
>  different event.
>
>  In any case, I very much look forward to working together with the
>  Natives in the area and I hope that this will work out.
>
>  Cheers and a happy new year to everybody,
>  Peter Davis

***********************************************************************
More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the
Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http://www.astc.org.
To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the
message  SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to
[log in to unmask]