Reclaiming Thanksgiving

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