I’m Indigenous Canadian and I still have friends or new people I meet who joke with me about Native stuff, like do I know what time it is, what’s the weather forecast, can I read the stars? Where are the animals? How’s the fishing?
I tell them that there is a traditional way of being able to tell which way is north.
I tell them to look for the nearest satellite TV dish … they always point south.
Obviously, this only works in the northern hemisphere … if you are a Native person in the southern hemisphere, the dishes point north.
I’m Indigenous Canadian and I still have friends or new people I meet who joke with me about Native stuff, like do I know what time it is, what’s the weather forecast, can I read the stars? Where are the animals? How’s the fishing?
I tell them that there is a traditional way of being able to tell which way is north.
I tell them to look for the nearest satellite TV dish … they always point south.
Obviously, this only works in the northern hemisphere … if you are a Native person in the southern hemisphere, the dishes point north.
if you are a non-native person in the Southern hemisphere the dishes still point north
Are you sure about that? Thousands of years of ancient knowledge might disagree