The Thanksgiving Day Celebration originated From a Massacre - Let's Hear the Wampanoag side of the story. Here are some of the most common misconceptions about the November holiday.(from Indian Country Today, original published 2017.)
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of a historic event in Native America, the action at Wounded Knee. What was its significance, and why it still resonate with Native peoples. How it connects with the resistance at the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Thanksgiving serves as a reminder of the interconnectedness of our lives with the land and those who cultivate it. As we express gratitude for the abundance before us, it is incumbent upon us to advocate for policies that sustain our food system.
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Ruth Hopkins, a Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer, biologist, attorney, and former tribal judge, breaks down the myths and facts about Thanksgiving and early encounters between Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
Because meals are so important to the holidays, it raises our awareness of the issue, but hunger in our community exists 24/7
Lincoln' Thanksgiving intended to unite a divided country and to include in an unprecedented way African-Americans in the ideal of liberty announced in 1776. Thanksgiving should be the Fourth of July without enslaved and masters.
Indigenous connections to the earth provide blueprint for halting climate change. After COP26, the great climate change summit and its lack of hard action in addressing climate change, I was reminded of the human relationship to the earth.
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