Give support to Indigenous mutual aid as best you can, and if possible connect with a local Indigenous Friendship Centre to find out more on how you can play a role in stopping colonial violence.

I was gonna say happy Thanksgiving, but this holiday was made to make everyone forget about the massacre of indigenous people so I'm not saying it

So the indigenous people saw them an', like normal, ordinary people, had empathy for 'em. They taught 'em how ta' farm. They provided 'em with food.

An' so the colonists genocided 'em.

Honestly, horrific holiday.
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Happy Thanksgiving from the ghosts of all the Pequots slaughtered by the Christians.

This is a blatant lie to justify the genocide against invertirle indigenous people. And even if it were true, which it isn't, what the Europeans did to indigenous people was by far way more monstrous.

I follow Richard Rohr ( Breathing Under Water) and this was today’s message

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Things I've liked to add:

Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate, I've read Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior.

Morgan Talty Penobscot (Maine) author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit.

Also enjoyed Frybread Face and Me (netflix) and
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Love this list! Thanks ♥️

I would phrase it as the origin myth is problematic.
The holiday is our very best.

Powwow Highway (1989 movie) Great

Also North of North on Netflix, and the OG, Smoke Signals

Co-sign on @sgj.bsky.social
One of my favorite authors, period!

(No shade on the others; just haven’t read them…yet)

Tommy Orange (fiction, not memoir 🙂) has two novels—There, There and Wandering Stars. Both great, but the former might have broader appeal
Memoir: Whiskey Tender (Jackson Taffa) and Heartberries (Maillot)
Louise Erdrich novels are generally outstanding; I love Roundhouse and The Sentence

Kaitlyn Curtice wrote 2 books, Native and Living Resistance. She writes on healing, spirituality, nature. Highly recommend.