The Star Stories Project

This project is based on creating a planetarium-style video presentation to share Northern Cheyenne star stories. The audio will be in the Northern Cheyenne native tongue, recorded and played during planetarium showings focused on the constellation of the story. As the story is being told, subtitles in English & Northern Cheyenne will also be displayed. Additionally, artwork created to illustrate the story by Northern Cheyenne artists will be utilized during the video of the story. The story will be paired with the Western astronomical curriculum to facilitate a two-eyed seeing approach to understanding astronomy concepts. Two-eyed seeing (Wright et al., 2019) is an approach to simultaneously viewing concepts through an indigenous and a Western lens. The planetarium show will therefore share the linguistics of the Northern Cheyenne through the storytelling of star stories of their people. The story will be paired with astronomical details of the constellation and include the most recent discoveries in the universe.