{"id":4504,"date":"2014-10-11T06:27:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2014-10-07T06:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T02:49:51","slug":"latest-read-sharing-the-skies-navajo-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/latest-read-sharing-the-skies-navajo-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Read: “Sharing the Skies: Navajo Astronomy”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Sharing the Skies: Navajo Astronomy” by Nancy C. Maryboy, PhD and David Begay, PhD<\/p><\/div>\n

I find these kinds of books fascinating because they provide us another indigenous perspective outside of the western mindset.\u00a0 I see similarities amongst the Navajo and our own people, the Tlingit.\u00a0 The Navajo stories like our own are inspirational; more often than not they lead me to envision a robe or painting or some form of art piece.<\/p>\n

This book provides a cross-cultural view of Navajo and Western astronomy.\u00a0 “Sharing the Skies” provides a look at traditional Navajo astronomy, including the constellations and the unique way in which Navajo people view the cosmos and their place within it.\u00a0 In addition, this book offers a comparison of the Navajo astronomy with the Greek (Western) perceptions.\u00a0 Beautifully illustrated with original paintings from a Navajo artist and scientifically enhanced with NASA photography.<\/p>\n

The authors are Nancy C. Maryboy and David Begay.\u00a0 Marboy is a Cherokee\/Navajo scholar working in the area of Indigenous Science, with a focus on astronomy.\u00a0 she is the President and Executive Director of the Indigenous Education Institute located in Bluff, Utah and Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u00a0 She teaches Indigenous Astronomy at Northern Arizona University.\u00a0 She works with NASA educational outreach projects and with University of California, Berkeley, Space Science Labs on National Science Foundation projects.\u00a0 She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and San Juan Island, Washington.<\/p>\n

David Begay is a scholar and member of the Navajo Nation, and one of the founders of the Indigenous Education Institute.\u00a0 He works with University of California Berkeley, Space Science Labs in areas of Western and Indigenous science with support from NASA and the National Science Foundation.\u00a0 He lives on the Navajo Nation and works as an independent contractor with federal, state, tribal and corporate entities.<\/p>\n

You may purchase a copy of this book for $14.95 from Rio Nuevo Publishers in Tucson, Arizona (www.rionuevo.com) or when you visit the Mesa Verde National Park visitor’s center gift shop, like I did !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find these kinds of books fascinating because they provide us another indigenous perspective outside of the western mindset.\u00a0 I see similarities amongst the Navajo and our own people, the Tlingit.\u00a0 The Navajo stories like our own are inspirational; more often than not they lead me to envision a robe or painting or some form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,150],"tags":[336,335,337],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels-adventures","category-honoring-others","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-david-begay","tag-nancy-c-maryboy","tag-navajo-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}