ETHNOASTRONOMY OF THE LAKOTA
Dr. Mark Hollabaugh
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Normandale Community College
Bloomington, Minnesota 55431

 
 
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Incorporating Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy into an Astronomy Course.  This is the PowerPoint version of a talk, with notes, that I gave at the American Association of Physics Teachers meeting in Albuquerque, NM, on 11 January 2005.

In May, 1997, I presented a talk on Lakota astronomy at the Dakota History Conference sponsored by the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  This copyrighted online version of Lakota Celestial Imagery:  Spirit and Sky may not be further distributed, published, copied or altered. 

A stone wall at Blue Mounds State Park in southwestern Minnesota has evoked much speculation.  Could this be an ancient marker for the equinox sunrise?  In this article I present a summary of prior research and report on my own visits to the site.  This copyrighted, online version of The Blue Mound Stone Wall:  A Minnesota Stonehenge? may not be further distributed, published, copied or altered.