Bighorn Medicine Wheel Site Map

Medicine Wheel Homepage

1. Explore Bighorn

Eddy's diagram of alignments

Pointer to sunrise/set page

Pointer to heliacal risings

2. What are Medicine Wheels?

• What are the Medicine Wheels?
• Who built them and when?
• What were they used for?

3. What purpose do they serve?

• Pointers to the Sun and Stars
• Can I track the sunrises?
• Show me the dawn rising of a stara

4. Where do the Sun & stars rise & set?

• Images and descriptions of the Sun's track across the sky during various seasons. Pointer to making a Sun Track diorama
• Pointer to the heliacal risings page

5. Activities

• Foamboard and pebble Medicine Wheel model
• Suntrack Diorama
• Chabot Space and Science Center's schoolyard chalk-and-string wheel
• National Geographic's Reason for the Season
• UMass wheel
• VCSU wheel

6. For Sun Watchers Today

7. Resources

• Learning about Medicine Wheels
  • Archaeology
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Carbon Dating
  • Astronomy
• Related Links
• Articles
• Activities
• Imagery

8. Native American Connections

• Chaco Canyon
• Cohokia "Woodhenge"
• Native Views from Space
• The Sundance
• Oral Traditions
• Beliefs about the Sun and Stars