Medicine Wheel Research Paper

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The medicine wheel is a circle made of stone built by native Americans it was built 300 years ago from different types of stones and rocks. It is located in Big Horn, Wyoming and it is 25 yards in meters. The points to the rising and setting places of the sun at summer solstice, the rising places of Aldebaran in Taurus, rigel in Orion, and Sirius in Canis Major allbright , important stars associated with the solstice. The different directions can represent the stages of life, seasons of the year, aspects of the life, elements of nature, animals,continuity, consciousness, energy, and ceremonial plants. The medicine is mainly useful for native Americans and their beliefs they place a buffalo's skull in the center of the wheel and go to one