For North American Indigenous People,
Thanksgiving is traditionally our everyday Prayer and
Celebration of Gratitude for All Our Relations ( for 'every-thing' ).
We Give Thanks continually for All that Is, because it is our Way.
Gratitude is Giving Thanks; it is the Honoring of Reciprocity and
Celebration of Unconditional Love and Forgiveness.
Walking the Way in Gratitude and Love every day,
is Walking the Beauty Path. We can Reclaim Thanksgiving
and Celebrate in a new way; the Beauty Way. We can celebrate
that We Are Still Here and We Rise Together. We can choose to be
the living embodiments of Love here on Earth, by simply Being Love and
Being Loving to each other every day, in all ways, always.
The most radical and political act we can possibly be and do is to
simply Love.
Being Love and Loving, does not mean we forget the Indigenous
Genocide we have experienced as Indigenous people of North America
AND the World. Being Love and Loving honors All Our Relations, All Our
Ancestors. Let's Reclaim Thanksgiving by simply Being Love and Loving.
We can choose to celebrate or not, on this American Holiday. We can
choose a new Way of celebrating or an old one.
As a woman of Native American descent I choose to celebrate in a
new Way; by Being Love and Loving, by Praying the traditional
Thanksgiving Prayer, and by Giving Thanks for All Our Relations.
To All My People, To All Our Relations, I Love You and Pray for you All
each and every day. I walk the Beauty Way in honor of my ancestors
of this Earth and Beyond the Stars, Moon and Sun.
May We Rise Together in Radical Love, continually reminding
each other to Love and be Loving.
Love is the Way.
Many Blessings Always, In All Ways
Shannondoah
