Star Stories: The Never-ending Bear Hunt
Object Details
- Creator
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Views
- 68,199
- Video Title
- Star Stories: The Never-ending Bear Hunt
- Description
- This animation tells the Iroquois story about three hunters who follow a bear into the sky and become the stars forming the handle of the Big Dipper. It is one of nine traditional Native American stories that are part of the National Museum of the American Indian inaugural exhibition "Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World," which is on view through April 20, 2019.
- Video Duration
- 2 min 20 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
- Uploaded
- 2018-06-08T15:54:15.000Z
- Type
- YouTube Videos
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- SmithsonianNMAI
- National Museum of the American Indian
- YouTube Channel
- SmithsonianNMAI
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Native Americans;American Indians
- Record ID
- yt_bH2mCcivliQ
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