11 likes, 0 comments - cosmic_distance_ladder on November 28, 2024: "Pictographs of the Ojibwe constellations Mooz - the Great Moose, the Wintermaker, and the Great Panther.
The fourth Thursday in November is a time that people in America gather together, some in gratitude and others in mourning. Long before the occasionally beautiful, but too often horrific interactions between European colonists and Native American nations, the people who lived in this part of the world marked time, navigated, and built rich mythologies by studying the stars.
For many of us who have only been taught the Western European astronomical traditions and constellations, seeing the sky as those of another culture have always seen it can feel disorienting, but entwined within the storytelling is a profound astronomical knowledge.
There are as many astronomical traditions as there are nations, but, as in so many places, the spread of Europeans searching for a better life caused great disruptions and many things that were once known and shared freely were lost. Among those doing the work of preserving, recovering, and restoring the knowledge of Native American astronomy are the team at Native Skywatchers, where researcher, artist and storyteller Carl Gawboy together with other scholars, teaches the astronomical traditions of the Ojibwe and other Native American communities, and works to integrate Native American astronomical knowledge into a scientific context.
— Tanya
Hegman Lake Pictographs image from 2003, Wikimedia Commons.
Ojibwe Star Map by Annette Lewis, William Wilson, and Carl Gawboy. ©2012.
https://www.nativeskywatchers.com/projects.html
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58m4f9pq
YouTube discussion between Carl Gawboy and Ojibwe photographer Travis Novitsky: https://youtu.be/Ot9Frw8i5YY
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Terence Tao
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