Happy Thanksgiving! But how to find gratitude when the holiday itself feels so complicated — or when life feels heavy? Thanksgiving brings together joy and pain: a day dedicated to gratitude wrapped in a history of violence that requires reparations, a tradition that kills millions of animals, and family conflicts or loneliness that can make [...]
This week school children everywhere will be dressing up as Pilgrims and Indians to reenact the first Thanksgiving. They’ll learn that the starving Pilgrims were saved by a group of Indians who generously donated barrels of corn and squash. That these two groups – despite speaking different languages and a long history of violence – [...]
November 28, 2013
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Indigenous/Pagan Voice