“It is my hope that we as a nation can continue to consecrate days of remembrance, where we can both celebrate and mourn, acknowledge and repair, and find ways to be thankful, even with a wounded heart,” writes Brenda Beyal.
It is my hope that we as a nation can find ways to be thankful, even with a wounded heart.Giving thanks has been celebrated at different times and places since time immemorial on this land we call America. Harvest meals have been an integral part of the lifeways of Indigenous peoples, a way of expressing gratitude for the earth’s bounty, the power of the creator and the people’s survival that continues today..
Some of my aunts and uncles were taken to boarding schools. My mother was spared because my grandfather hid her and a younger brother. My father and most of my uncles, remarkably, voluntarily joined the armed forces to fight for their country as did their children.
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