FOR MANY, THANKSGIVING IS A DAY OF MOURNING.
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New food for thought …
“We Are Each Other’s Harvest is a groundbreaking and amazing collection of voices that reveal Black people’s devotion to agriculture. Expressing our contributions to the world from ground up, it is a tribute to our ancestors and a gift for us and the future. May these words free our soul indefinitely, while keeping our roots strong.” -- Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist
In 1620 an English ship called the Mayflower landed on the shores inhabited by the Pokanoket people, and it was Squanto who welcomed the newcomers and taught them how to survive in the rugged land they called Plymouth. He showed them how to plant corn, beans, and squash, and how to hunt and fish. And when a good harvest was gathered in the fall, the two peoples feasted together in the spirit of peace and brotherhood.
Almost four hundred years later, the tradition continues. . . .
PODCASTS to feast on!
This Land (Crooked Media)
Award-winning documentary podcast series - “beautifully produced, deeply researched, painfully enlightening, exceptional storytelling!” - Lezlie Dana, MLKS president. In Season 1, host Rebecca Nagle (journalist & Cherokee Citizen) reports … In Season 2, Nagle reports on how the far right is using Native children to attack American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda.
Black Farming, Food Justice and Land Stewardship (Commonwealth Club of California)
Black communities have a long and complicated relationship with American soil. The ongoing call to address systemic racism, patterns of abuse, violence and dispossession have brought back to the mainstream the conversation of BIPOC communities' historical connections to land.
What are the connections between this history and current "food apartheid" (food deserts)? How is the Black farming movement connected to changes in larger food systems and the growth of worker cooperatives? How are people incorporating environmental sustainability into their work? And what can we learn from both the rich history of resistance and current strategies to inform how we resource a world where all people have access to healthy, fresh and locally sourced food?
The Desert (Episode 4, As She Rises — with Grace Lynch, WonderMedia Network, Apple Podcasts)
Nestled in the Northwestern corner of present-day New Mexico is the Greater Chaco Region: home to thousands of Diné and Puebloean families. It's also one of the most intense concentrations of oil wells in the country, designated an “energy sacrifice zone” by the Nixon administration in the 1970s. Now, a group of activists who recognize the land’s inherent importance, and who themselves have built lives on and around it, are changing the way this land is leased out—and might preserve this land for good.
In this episode, we visit the Greater Chaco Region. Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe reads her poem “Dinétah” and explains the inextricable connection between land and body, as well as the pain inflicted by extractive industries. Julia Bernal, Director of the Pueblo Action Alliance, discusses the fight to preserve the Greater Chaco Region and the importance of local ecology in the face of climate denial.
“Oh, how I’ve missed you. To think I was away for so long / and you were always there / waiting on the red earth / to hold yourself open / and offer to carry my burden.” Laura Tohe
How to Be Grateful in Every Moment — But Not for Everything (On Being — Krista Tippett’ conversation with Br. David Steindl-Rast)
David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine monk and a beloved teacher and author on the subject of gratitude. He’s the founder and senior advisor for A Network for Grateful Living. His books include Gratefulness, The Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness, A Listening Heart, and an autobiography, i am through you so i.
A HAUDENOSAUNEE "THANKSGIVING" PRAYER
Except for the words "Greetings to the Natural World," the words in bold are not meant to be said.
GREETINGS TO THE NATURAL WORLD!
[The People]
Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue.
We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things.
So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People.
Now our minds are one.
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
This is the inter-related structure of reality”