Wabanaki REACH Newsletters
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Publication Date
11-12-2023
Publisher
Wabanaki REACH
City
Stillwater, Maine
Keywords
Decolonization, Restorative justice, Community wellness, Self-determination
Disciplines
Native American Studies | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Description
This month we offer the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, first published on our blog page on November 2, 2017.
The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is an ancient message of peace and appreciation of Mother Earth and her inhabitants. The children learn that, according to Native American tradition, people everywhere are embraced as family. Our diversity, like all wonders of Nature, is truly a gift for which we are thankful.
When one recites the Thanksgiving Address the Natural World is thanked, and in thanking each life-sustaining force, one becomes spiritually tied to each of the forces of the Natural and Spiritual World. The Thanksgiving Address teaches mutual respect, conservation, love, generosity, and the responsibility to understand that what is done to one part of the Web of Life, we do to ourselves.
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©2023 Wabanaki REACH. Posted in this repository with the permission of Wabanaki REACH.
Recommended Citation
Wabanaki REACH, "November 2023 News" (2023). Wabanaki REACH Newsletters. 39.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wabanaki_reach/39
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