Skywatch for the week of April 26, 2021
Listen • 0:59 Mon Apr 26, 2021 APRIL’S FULL MOON The full moon rises in the east this evening once the sun has set in the west. Since spring is underway, the Sioux Indians call April’s full moon, the Moon of Greening Grass; to the Winnebago, it is Planting Corn Moon. The Seneca Indians, the Keepers of the Western Door, recognize this as the time of the strawberry dance, while the Keepers of the Eastern Door, the Mohawk, know it as “Onerahtokha,” the budding time, which is similar to the Kiowa’s Leaf Moon, as this is the time of year when new leaves form on tree...
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