News From Native California - Spring 2015 Volume 28, Issue 3 | Page 28

you in the know? How do you know without scientific evidence or data? For the Native American, there is no theory. There is no scientific study and no scientific data. But
then again, one is repeating hundreds, if not thousands,
of years of information passed down through many, many
generations.
When my mother said our people could see the stars in
the mid-day light, I knew she meant what she said. I asked,
“Where do we look?” She turned her head, pursed her lips,
and pointed upward into the bright blue sky. Years later, a
friend of mine was usi