Cultural Highlight: Jicarilla Apache Star Stories

Description

Tribal Elder Bryan Vigil shares some traditional Jicarilla Apache stories about the North Star, Big Dipper, and Milky Way.

NPS video description: The video opens with an image of Jicarilla Apache elder Bryan Vigil inside a tipi, with a campfire below him. For most of the video, Bryan sits beside a younger Apache man telling star stories, with the dunes and mountains in the background. Photos of the North Star, Big Dipper, and Milky Way over the dunes appear as he speaks of each one.

Duration

2 minutes, 39 seconds

Credit

NPS/Patrick Myers

Date Created

07/20/2019

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