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Native American Indian Star Charts
BOUT CALIE MISSION STATEMENT EVENTS BOARD NATIVE NEWS Publishing Corner: ROY COOK NEWS BLOG THE INDIAN REPORTER TRIBAL BLOGGERS Indian Community: TRIBAL COMMUNITY PROFILES SOARING EAGLES Science & Wonder ASTRONOMY PORTAL KID'S CLUBHOUSE Indian Heros: VETERAN COMMUNITY MEDALS OF HONOR CODE TALKERS FAMOUS CHIEFS HISTORIC BATTLES POEMS ESSAYS SPORTS-ATHLETES MISSION FEDERATION FAMOUS INDIANS California Indian Art: MISSION BASKETS RED CLAY POTTERY ETHNOGRAPHIC ART CAVE ART MUSIC CALIE Library: FEDERAL Resources HEALTH & MEDICAL INDIAN BOOK LIST HISTORICAL Documents CALIF ED DIRECTORY Academic Financial Aid: SCHOLARSHIPS GRANTS & FUNDING Tribal Governments: TRIBAL COURTS SOVEREIGNTY SOCIAL SERVICES TRIBAL DIRECTORY Indian Gaming: INDIAN CASINO FORUM JOBS BOARD CONTACT CALIE LINKS SITE MENU NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN Stars Charts by Roy Cook, Opata-Oodham, Mazopiye Wishasha: Writer, Singer, Speaker Summer is a great time to look to the stars. Many times at night, when the air is still in the desert or we are on a high place elsewhere, it seems we can almost touch the stars.
Recently noted by ‘Jr’ Cuero: The social, and cultural significance of this ground painting for a geographical territory predating the beginning of the Late Period is linked with the existence of a cycle of songs that describe the same circle boundary. Harry Paul Cuero, Jr. said that the Lightning Songs describe geographical locations as seen from the perspective of the air, beginning in the northeastern desert area (to the right of the San Bernadino Mountains), and moving south, following the circle boundary. One story tells of a Lakota woman who went to the sky to marry a star, then fell to her death from a rope of braided timsila ‘turnip’ stems as she was trying to return to her village on earth through a hole in the constellation.
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