Planetary Nomenclaure and Indigenous Communities White Paper Cover

context is “manifest destiny.” Dispossession of land and resources is a hallmark of colonialism, and such dispossession is still with us in the form of the many inequalities that exist within the United States and throughout the globe. [...] Native American Communities The problems of cultural appropriation and colonialism, and the remedies of relationship-building and co-creation, apply to Indigenous cultures around the world. [...] The discoverers decided to use the word Arrokoth as the official name of this object, choosing a word meaning “sky” that is derived from the language of the Powhatan people, who were the original inhabitants of the land where the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (operations center for New Horizons ) now sits. [...] 3.3 The A Hua He Inoa project The A Hua He Inoa (AHHI) nomenclature project18 is a partnership between the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi, the College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (UH Hilo), and Hawai’i-based astronomical observatories, which resolves to “weave traditional indigenous practices into the official naming of astronomical discoveries made in Hawai’i.”1. [...] The name of Kamoʻoalewa (formerly 2016 HO3) comes from a traditional Hawaiian chant about the origins of the universe called the Kumulipo, and Ka‘epaoka‘āwela (formerly 2015 BZ509) means “the mischievous opposite-moving companion of Jupiter.” 19 The students responded very positively to the experience, commenting that through this program, they were able to see the link between their ancestral kn.