31: My Thoughts on Thanksgiving

I have tried to plan episodes in advance for the most part, but I’ve really been stuck debating this episode and what to do about it.

It occurred to me this morning that maybe the best thing to do is to let you in on my thought process so you know exactly where I’m coming from.

Here are my conflicting thoughts:

1. This is Thanksgiving week, and I do believe that really getting intentional on the people and other parts of life we’re grateful for is important - particularly in a year as tough as this one has been.

2. The more I learn about Thanksgiving, the less I believe it’s something from our past that we should celebrate.

I’ve been trying to decide which way to take this episode, and I’m just now realizing that I think the best approach is to hold space for both. 

In this episode we talk about Thanksgiving, and some ways we can honor the people who were here first. I’ll share some resources that I’d encourage you to share with your audience to raise awareness. And then, I’m also going to share some of the things I’m most grateful for (spoiler alert: you are one of them!)

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• We Are Still Here: A Message of Unity for Thanksgiving (Cultural Survival)

• Native Land (learn about the indigenous territory you live on)

• Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong (New York Times)

• The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage they Imbue (Smithsonian Mag)

• The Native American Side of the Thanksgiving Menu (NPR)

• How to Support Indigenous People on Thanksgiving (Vice)

• Indigenous-owned businesses, artists and makers: Here’s How You Can Support the Indigenous American Community This Thanksgiving

• Organizations to support:

  • Native American Rights Fund

  • Native Wellness Institute

  • National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

  • Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women

  • American Indian College Fund

• Books:

  • Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations and the U.S. Constitution by Oren Lyons

  • This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David Silverman

• The Podcast Babes with Anne Claessen

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