Indigenous astronomical traditions contain empirically grounded stellar observations—such as the Boorong record of Eta Carinae and Aboriginal accounts of Betelgeuse's variability—and can enrich astrophysics, education, and outreach.
The Astronomy of the Kamilaroi People and their Neighbours
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The Kamilaroi people and their neighbours, the Euahlayi, Ngemba, and Murrawarri, are an Aboriginal cultural grouping located in the northwest and north central of New South Wales. They have a rich history, but have been missed in much of the literature concerned with sky knowledge in culture. This study collected stories, some of which have not previously been reported in an academic format, from Aboriginal people practicing their culture, augmented with stories from the literature, and analysed the data to create a database of sky knowledge that will be added to the larger body of Aboriginal cultural knowledge in Australia. We found that there is a strong sky culture reflected in the stories, and we also explored the stories for evidence of an ethnoscientific approach to knowledge of the sky.
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Echoes of Star Stories: Integrating Indigenous narratives into modern stellar astrophysics
Indigenous astronomical traditions contain empirically grounded stellar observations—such as the Boorong record of Eta Carinae and Aboriginal accounts of Betelgeuse's variability—and can enrich astrophysics, education, and outreach.