Astronomy and Navigation Skills

Visitors from a variety of Indigenous communities come to the United Kingdom, and a place that many ask to visit is Stonehenge. I have taken several people there, often stopping along the way to see the White Horse, carved out of the hillside at Uffington, and the more scattered standing stones at Avebury. I prefer this latter site because it is less dominated by the tourist authorities and the national press than Stonehenge is, but Stonehenge is the one that my visitors tend to prefer. I even ventured out on the morning of the summer solstice when the date coincided with a visit from some Native North Americans one year, and we found Avebury a very popular site for locals who call themselves “Pagans,” but its standing stones are less well organized and preserved, and my visitors still ask for Stonehenge. Another site that attracts the attention of visitors from the Indigenous world is Callanish, in the Isle of Lewis, and I have taken a very good Cree friend there, but it is a lot farther than Stonehenge to travel to from Oxford.