Reachable stars : patterns in the ethnoastronomy of eastern North America / George E. Lankford.

Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Lankford, George E., 1938-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Subjects:	Indian cosmology. Indian mythology > East (U.S.) Indian mythology > Great Plains. Ethnoastronomy > East (U.S.) Ethnoastronomy > Great Plains. Ethnoastronomy. Indian mythology. Great Plains. East United States.