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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm Indigenous Canadian and I still have friends or new people I meet who joke with me about Native stuff, like do I know what time it is, what's the weather forecast, can I read the stars? Where are the animals? How's the fishing?

I tell them that there is a traditional way of being able to tell which way is north.

I tell them to look for the nearest satellite TV dish ... they always point south.

Obviously, this only works in the northern hemisphere ... if you are a Native person in the southern hemisphere, the dishes point north.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if you are a non-native person in the Southern hemisphere the dishes still point north

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago

Are you sure about that? Thousands of years of ancient knowledge might disagree