Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island and elsewhere have lived on the land long before the scientific revolution and the so-called enlightenment. As part of this land, the peoples developed intimate knowledge of the environment and natural world, including knowledges of the sky above. That understanding was arguably built by centuries of detailed observations that have…
Month: January 2021
Thoughts about how we name things in the sky
Humans watch the sky all of the time and look for the reassuring planets and stars that we identify with. In the north, those stars might include Polaris the North Star, or Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion. We learn about these stars and the constellations in the sky as children in school even if…