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The Blue Marbles Project: Makasa Looking Horse (2022)
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The Blue Marbles Project: Makasa Looking Horse (2022)
Description
Blue Marbles for the Ohneganos team passed to Makasa Looking Horse at
DWeb Camp 2022. Ohneganos is an Indigenous water research program led by
McMaster University Professor, Dr. Dawn Martin Hill. Makasa is the host
of the project’s interactive, student-led YouTube series on water
security and climate change called “Ohneganos: Let’s Talk Water.”
The Ohneganos Water Research Project is creating a
virtual reality (VR) experience to engage youth and teach people
about the importance of water and the lack of clean drinking water
access in many communities.
The VR experience allows people to immerse themselves
virtually as they travel through time in a canoe down the Grand
River, learning about traditional Haudenosaunee culture and
witnessing the world around them transform. The journey tells the
Indigenous story of Skywoman and how the earth was created and how
it came from water.
Makasa kindly
shared the story of Sky Woman with the children during
Talking Stick Storytime at the Be Water Waystation. Each
morning, children were invited to come to hear a Native
American legend that has been passed on from generation to
generation, as told by our special guest Storyteller of the Day.
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2022 Andi Wong
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Creator
Andi Wong
Credit
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