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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 06:34:53 -0700 (MST)
>From: Ben Sherman <shermab@spot.colorado.edu>
>Subject: "The Stars, the Black Hills and the Buffalo"
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>We would very much appreciate your attendance at our event.
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>We are seeking to attract friends to come see our show, perhaps yourself
>and people you know who are interested in traditional Native American
>belief and knowledge. Can you please pass the word along about this show
>to your friends and colleagues?
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>You may contact me at the numbers indicated below.  Thanks...Ben Sherman
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>Buffalo Gap Land Rescue presents...
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>          THE STARS, THE BLACK HILLS AND THE BUFFALO
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>                      Fiske Planetarium
>                University of Colorado Campus
>                      Boulder, Colorado
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>                  Sunday, December 14, 1997
>                      3:00 to 5:30 p.m.
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>Many years ago, the Lakota combined their understanding of the stars, the
>sun and the moon with their vast knowledge of the earth to create defining
>traditions and lifeways.  Through the millennia, they developed the
>ability to bring their earthly movements and ceremonies into harmony with
>the sun and the stars, thereby becoming one with the known universe.
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>This program in the planetarium will beautifully and dramatically describe
>the Lakota concept of stellar mirroring, the belief that what is shown to
>be in the stars is also contained on the earth.  Lakota constellations
>will be shown to mirror the Black Hills and related land forms such as
>Devil's Tower, Harney Peak, Lakota winter camps and Buffalo Gap.  The
>power of the sun will be shown to be embodied in the buffalo.
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>The annual journey of the sun through the Lakota constellations dictated
>that the people likewise complete a journey through corresponding Black
>Hills land forms, performing ceremonies as they moved through the seasons.
>As the Lakota followed the heavenly path of the sun, they were also
>following the path of the sun's earthly counterpart, the buffalo.
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>                            PROGRAM
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>Introduction..............................................Winona LaDuke
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>Invocation...........................................Neva Standing Bear
>                                                   Calvin Standing Bear
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>Buffalo Preserve Concept.................................Marlon Sherman
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>"The Stars, The Black Hills and the Buffalo....Buffalo Gap Storytellers
>                                 Gracie RedShirt Tyon and Larry Swalley
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>      Reception will follow.  Music by Red Tail Chasing Hawks
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>                   Tickets are $50.00 per person.
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>This event will support the efforts of Buffalo Gap Land Rescue and The
>Seventh Generation Fund to develop a Buffalo Preserve in the northeastern
>Wyoming Black Hills.  The preserve will provide a permanent sanctuary for
>the buffalo, and an alternative to the tragic slaughter of the Yellowstone
>herd.
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>            Seating is limited.  Credit cards accepted.
>        Call (303)661-9819 for information and reservations.
>                    Fax number is (303)664-5139.
>                 Web site: www.hbbe.com/buffalogap
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>Send checks to:  Buffalo Gap Land Rescue
>                 P.O. Box 788
>                 Louisville, CO 80027
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>The book, "Lakota Star Knowledge" may be purchased from Buffalo Gap
>Land Rescue for $17.50. The book was published by Sinte Gleska University
>on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. The author is Ronald Goodman, who got
>his information from a number of Lakota people.  The forward, Naked Eye
>Astronomy, by Ray A. Williamson, was excerpted from "Earth and Sky:
>Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore."
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