“I’ve always admired the stars,” says Wanda Yazzie (Diné), a member of the Albuquerque Astronomical Society. “It’s just natural to look up and see what’s out there.”
Yazzie, the third oldest of 11 children, says her father would entertain them with night sky stories while growing up on Navajo Nation. “He’d talk about how the Holy Ones, when they were getting ready to build the sky, took great thoughtfulness to put all the stars in the sky,” she recalls. “Trickster Coyote got a turn to put a star in the sky, but he took the entire rug and threw them all
