June 21, 2008
4:30–9:30 p.m.
FREE admission
FREE parking
The next Solstice Celebration will be Saturday June 20, 2009. Please check back in the weeks before the event for updated information. If you have comments about or suggestions for the event please contact Lisa Falk.
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Resources
Interested? Want to learn more about things you discovered at the event? Here are some sources for solstice information.
Books
Bibliography compiled by Nancy Chilton, ASM Library
Erdoes, Richard & Alfonso Ortiz, American Indian Myths and Legends, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984. Includes stories about the land, cosmos, and changing seasons from various Native American perspectives.
Fields, Virginia M. & Victor Zamudio-Taylor, The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001. Art and mythology of the southwestern US and Mexico. Includes discussion of Pueblo, Zuni and Hopi cosmology, seasons, horticultural practices and summer ceremonies.
Fontana, Bernard & John P. Schaefer, Of Earth and Little Rain: The Papago Indians, Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1981. Describes Tohono O’odham practices and rituals connected to seasons of the Sonoran desert.
Giddings, Ruth Warner, Yaqui Myths and Legends, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1978. Yaqui history and culture, with stories including sun and moon legends.
Griffith, James S., Beliefs and Holy Places: A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. Folklorist Griffith explores the practical and spiritual relationships between people and land in the Sonoran desert region.
Jackson, Ellen, The Summer Solstice, CT: Millbrook Press, 2001. A book written for children. Explains solstice traditions of different cultures.
Krupp, E.C., In Search of Ancient Astronomies, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Findings in the field of archaeoastronomy: the study of how ancient people observed and celebrated celestial rhythms.
Marshall, Ann, Rain: Native Expressions from the American Southwest, Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2000. Summer ceremonies, solstice ceremonies, rain.
Nabhan, Gary Paul, The Desert Smells Like Rain, San Francisco: Northpoint Press, 1982. Ecologist Dr. Nabhan celebrates the lives of Tohono O’odham people. Includes a vivid, lengthy description of summer saguaro fruit gathering.
Secakuku, Alph H. Following the Sun and Moon: Hopi Katchina Traditions, Flagstaff: Northland Publishing, 1995. A Hopi perspective on Hopi Katsina ceremonies, containing an overview of the ceremonial year including the summer solstice.
Web Pages
On this Website
Tohono O'odham Saguaro Harvest Traditions web exhibit with video and other resources
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/saguaro/
Hopi Summer Traditions
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/hopisummer/
Other Websites
Scientific
information about the Solstice
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/SummerSolstice.html
Overview
of solstice practices and beliefs by various cultures
http://www.religioustolerance.org/summer_solstice.htm
Podcast program comparing Native American and western astronomies (Sun-Earth Day 2007, program 5)
www.jodcast.net/amp/sun-earth.html#sun-earth_17
Navigate the night sky. Make a star wheel.
http://skytonight.com/letsgo/familyfun/Make_a_Star_Wheel.html
Tell time using the stars! Make a star clock.
http://skytonight.com/letsgo/familyfun/Make_a_Star_Clock.html
Tell time using the sun! Make a sundial.
http://skytonight.com/letsgo/familyfun/Make_Your_Own_Sundial.html
Play the constellation card game.
http://skytonight.com/letsgo/familyfun/Star_Deck.html
Heard
Museum curriculum dealing with rain from different Native cultural perspectives
http://www.heard.org/rain/rainintr.html
Saguaro Recipes
Hodgson, Wendy C., Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Presents information on nearly 540 edible plants used by people of more than 50 traditional cultures of the Sonoran desert area.
Salsa, Scones
http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/june/papr/jun_lil.html
Jam
http://www.pepperfool.com/recipes/jams/saguaro_jam.html
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** Please see the ADOT website for up-to-the-minute information about I-10 exit closures, including the Speedway exit, from Prince Road to 29th Street. These closures are in effect until 2010.
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