Why some Native American Tribes don’t watch the solar eclipse [Video]

For Alaynna Littlefeather, the sun is a father figure who provides harvest. She believes the sun dies and becomes reborn during the eclipse.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — While millions prepared to look at the sky for the Great American Eclipse, many others did all they could to avoid it.

Some Native American Tribes don’t celebrate the eclipse. Alaynna Littlefeather works at the Museum of Native American History (MONAH) and is a member of the Navajo Tribe. She explained that they treat the time of the eclipse as a mourning.

“One of the biggest forms of taboo in Navajo culture is death. That’s something that we don’t really acknowledge or like to talk about. And when it does happen, it’s dealt with very quickly. And an eclipse is essentially a disturbance or the death of the sun. And he’s considered a father figure in Navajo culture,” Littlefeather explained.

Littlefeather described the …

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