indigenous people Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/tag/indigenous-people/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:47:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg indigenous people Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/tag/indigenous-people/ 32 32 Final Workshops of the OruMbya Intercultural Project https://astro4dev.org/final-workshops-of-the-orumbya-intercultural-project/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:47:07 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24074 The final workshops of the OruMbya intercultural project were conducted virtually in September and October 2021. OruMbya (Orum: sky in Yorubá; and Mbya: Brazilian Guarani ethnicity) is a pilot project to celebrate Astronomy as the fuel of life, in which the stories of the stars are preserved in the resilience of people from 4 different [...]

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]]> Astronomy Project Helps Chilean Indigenous Students Rediscover Ancestral Roots https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-project-helps-chilean-indigenous-students-rediscover-ancestral-roots/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:00:05 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24063 The Rediscovering Identity Through Astronomy (RITA) project is using astronomy as a means of common humanitarian awareness, to help indigenous students rediscover ancestral roots. During the project, students, with the help of their teachers, identify with their ancestral roots and indigenous culture through the exploration of worldviews. RITA hopes to increase the interest of indigenous [...]

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