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Voices: For Indigenous people like me, Thanksgiving is a day of gratitude and mourning

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,

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The National Day of Mourning honors indigenous resistance

The National Day of Mourning began in 1970 and is held annually in Plymouth, Massachusetts. • Indigenous participants mourn ancestors and protest systemic oppression. • Thanksgiving is seen by many Native people as a symbol of genocide and cultural erasure.

Daily Press · 4h

Thanksgiving can be traced to many different days of gratitude

Thanksgiving to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. Overlooked, however, was an earlier proclamation by Washington on Oct. 3, 1789, in the first year of his presidency, when he proclaimed a national day of public thanksgiving and prayer.

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Native Americans hold National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving in solidarity with Indigenous struggles around the globe

For more than half a century, groups of Native Americans have been gathering on Thanksgiving to mark a National Day of ...

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5 years in: SDSU's Native Resource Center cultivates tradition of empowering students

The resource center opened in 2019 at the San Diego State University campus, on the ancestral lands of the Kumeyaay Nation.

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Lesson plan: After helping Pilgrims, today's Wampanoag tribe fight for their ancestral lands

Examine current issues facing the Wampanoag people, the Native people who welcomed and helped the Pilgrims only to have their ...

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Returning the ‘three sisters’ – corn, beans and squash – to Native American farms nourishes people, land and cultures

Historically, Native people throughout the Americas bred indigenous plant varieties specific to the growing ... which ...

Institute of Development Studies5h

Lessons from COP29 and inclusion of Indigenous peoples

The 29th Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, where a nearby district was known as Black City due to all ...

The Inlander7d

The Columbia River reflects the history of our region — especially Indigenous peoples' ancient, spiritual connection to this place

or the Ancient One by the Columbia region's Indigenous peoples. Questions and debates erupted. How old was it? Was it a ...

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Indigenous peoples, impacted by climate change, raise alarm about the planet at COP29

Antumalen Ayelen Antillanca Urrutia, 26, of Huapi Island, Chile, from the Mapuche Huilliche community, poses for a photo ...

Christian Science Monitor2d

In Canada, too, people remember a feast with settlers and Indigenous people

In Canada, Acadian descendants and the Mi’kmaq remember when they gathered to celebrate the harvest – and “good cheer.” ...

Bozeman Daily Chronicle6d

Deb Haaland: Apology to Indigenous peoples was just first step on path to healing

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. As leaders at the Department of the Interior and descendants of federal Indian boarding school ...

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Indigenous gardening practices

November is Indigenous Peoples’ Month, and it’s time to celebrate and recognize their contributions to gardening and ...

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