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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:

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> 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
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