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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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