Alternate Title
Haudenosaunee Star Knowledge
Traditional stories include: The Seven Brothers (Big Dipper); Nya-Gwa-Ih, The Celestial Bear; The Seven Star Dancers; The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster (Pleiades), Ga-Do-Waas and His Star Belt (Milky Way); and The Man-Eating Wife, the Little Old Woman and the Morning Star.
Haudenosaunee refers to the six nations (Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), Onayotekaono (Oneida), Onandaga, Guyohkohnyoh (Cayuga), Onondowahgah (Seneca), and Skaruhreh (Tuscarora)) which comprise the Iroquois Confederacy.
Contributor/Editor
J. N. B. Hewitt
Harriet Maxwell
Erminnie Smith
Arthur Parker
Edward Cornplanter ... [et al.]
Open Access
Yes
Primary Source
No
Publisher
[Six Nations Polytechnic]
Publication Date
2006
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Resource Type
Documents & Presentations
Format
Text -- PDF
Language