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