'We come from the stars': How Indigenous peoples are taking back astronomy
For the past 14 years, Wilfred Buck, an Elder from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and science facilitator with the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre, has been teaching astronomy from an Indigenous perspective.
Buck has strong ties with Ingenium. In 2017, he and Annette S. Lee (Founder of Native Skywatchers) co-curated the exhibition, "One Sky, Many Astronomies" for the new Canada Science and Technology Museum. The exhibition features Mista Muskwa — a Bear Ininew constellation story — and an interactive planisphere. Buck and Lee are now part of an Ingenium team developing an international exhibit on this topic.
Read more about how astronomers are turning to teaching Indigenous star knowledge in this article by Nicole Mortillaro, senior science reporter with the CBC.