Astronomy
Aboriginal Astronomer Credited with Comet Find
Brief profile of role model Rob Cardinal, a Blackfoot astronomer credited with discovering Comet Cardinal.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.19.
Aboriginal Oral Traditions of Australian Impact Craters
The Arctic Sky: Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore, and Legend
The Arctic Sky: Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore, and Legend
Asiatic Parallels in North American Star Lore: Milky Way, Pleiades, Orion
Asiatic Parallels in North American Star Lore: Ursa Major
Astrodigenous
Searchable website is an online portal giving educators access to Indigenous sky-knowledge resources.
Astronomical Alignment of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel
Astronomical Content of North American Plains Indian Calendars
Astronomical Tables Intended for Use in Astro-Archaeological Studies
Astronomy in the Native-Oriented Classroom
Atchakosuk: Ininewuk Stories of the Stars
Discusses Ininewuk (Cree) perspectives of astronomy, including mythology, stories and unique interpretations.
Bat Steals the Moon
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Battle of the Northern Lights
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
Big Horn Medicine Wheel: Why Was It Built?
A Blackfoot Sun and Moon Myth
Book Reviews:
Calendars of the Indians North of Mexico
Can a Myth Be Astronomically Dated?
Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640
Challenging Epistemologies: Exploring Knowledge Practices in Palikur Astronomy
The Cherokee Sacred Calendar: A Handbook of the Ancient Native American Tradition. Raven Hail
The Comanche Sun Dance
Cosmological Order As a Model For Navajo Philosophy
Cosmologie, Mythologie et Récit Historique dans la Tradition Orale des Algonquins de Kitcisakik
Cosmos, Culture and Landscape : Documenting, Learning and Sharing Aboriginal Astronomical Knowledge in Contemporary Society
Science & Engineering Thesis (PHD) - Curtin University, 2014.
The Council Circles of Central Kansas: Were They Solstice Registers?
Coyote in Navajo Religion and Cosmology
Coyote Places the Stars [by] Harriet Peck Taylor
Designed to accompany retelling of Wasco traditional story about how stars came to be arranged in the shapes of animals. Recommended for use with
[Cree Star Stories]
Cultures in Collision: Cosmology, Jurisprudence, and Religion in Tlingit Territory
Doctrine of Discovery: The Legacy and Continuing Impact of Christian "Discovery" on American Indian Populations
The Earthquake and Halley's Comet: Two Jiwarli Texts
The Economy of the North
Eskimo with Telescope
Ethnological Notes on the Astronomical Customs and Religious Ideas of the Chokitapia or Blackfeet Indians, Canada
Exploring the Night Sky Indigenous Inquiry Kit
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
A Fictive Kinship: Making "Modernity", "Ancient Hawaiians", and Telescopes on Mauna Kea
Forty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926
Grade 5: Teliaqewey, Kaqowey net Teliaqeweyminu? = Ah, the Truth. What Is Our Truth? = Wolamewakon. Keq Nit Kwolamewakonon?
Content focused on the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewiyik, and Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) peoples of New Brunswick.
Related materials: Interactive Activities; Activity Answer Sheet Lesson A: Worldview in Muin/Bear/Muwin and The Seven Hunters
A Grammar of Time: Lakota Winter Counts, 1700–1900
He Whare Hangarau Māori: Language, Culture & Technology
Hodinohsyo:nih 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.
How Coyote Created the Sun
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
How Fisher Went to the Skyland: The Origin of the Big Dipper An Ojibwe Story from the Great Lakes Region
Retelling of a traditional story.
Imaginative Cosmos: The Impact of Colonial Heritage in Radio Astronomy and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
In Our Own Words: Bringing Authentic First Peoples Content to the K-3 Classroom
Indian Notes [Vol. 6, no. 1, January, 1929]
Indigenous Knowledge and Our Connection to the Land
Lesson plans which can be use with a variety of grades.