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 Hello, Doug Carter, I'd like you to meet my friend, Harvey...
 DC> patience...  One project for the winter is to get some 
 DC> information on Sciences of the First Nations... either 'real' 
 DC> (practical application) or even the 'mythological' type... ie I 
 DC> saw some good astronomy stuff here a fair while back... 
 DC> hopefully my archives survive... but if anyone has some good 
 DC> leads I'd like to follow them... perhaps Internet first, then 
 DC> books etc...
I haven't posted this -anywhere- yet because it really isn't ready, too many 
things to do and not enough time. But since you asked, the Indian_Affairs 
echo archives are available online.
http://www.tfabbs.org
There's ummm... 22 megs of text there, 8 megs zipped. The search engine is 
-not- ready and won't be for a while, so I did a grep for 'astronomy'.
These are the zip files you might want. They average about 40k each. I didn't 
look any further than grep so have no idea what the topic for relevant 
messages is, URLs, books, people, discussion, whatever. So might be only one 
message in the 99 even mentions astronomy, but at least it's all there.
Or if you know what dates you're looking for see 00index.txt to find out what 
date range each file involves and maybe narrow things down a bit.
Suggest the zip rather than text versions to cut down a lot of bandwidth.
ia_006.zip
ia_007.zip
ia_008.zip
ia_00b.zip
ia_00d.zip
ia_00e.zip
ia_017.zip
ia_01e.zip
ia_01g.zip
ia_01i.zip
ia_01j.zip
ia_01k.zip
ia_01l.zip
ia_01m.zip
ia_01n.zip
ia_01o.zip
ia_01p.zip
ia_01q.zip
ia_01r.zip
ia_01s.zip
ia_01t.zip
ia_01u.zip
ia_01v.zip
ia_022.zip
ia_02w.zip
ia_04c.zip
Eventually I intend that a search engine will return -individual- messages. 
Haven't found anything that does what I need so must write it myself. It's 
not rocket science but does take a bunch of time.
Have a :-) day!
jB-)
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