Awakening to Wisdom this Thanksgiving

I am thankful for You, I am thankful for Family, Community, Friendships and Ancestors. 

Speaking of Ancestors, on this day that many celebrate Thanksgiving, I offer a prayer for WOKSAPE WOKIKTA - which is Lakota for Awakening to Wisdom, which includes making  Thanksgiving relevant to Native American People still alive today whose Ancestors lived fruitfully here on Turtle Island for tens of thousands of years before the invasion from Europe in the late 1400’s. How?

By heeding the words of the late Native historian Jack Forbes:

"While living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in, which is a product of that past. To address the crimes of settler colonialism that helped build this country’s wealth, the process rightfully starts by honoring the treaties the United States made with Indigenous Nations, by restoring all sacred sites, starting with the Black Hills, and payments of sufficient reparations for the reconstruction and expansion of Native Nations.”

May it be so for the healing of historic wounds whose repercussions still impact disastrously today.  

May enough of us show up as spiritual activists to make it be so. 

Thanksgiving Blessings for your Health, Safety and making good lemonade out of lemons.

love, t.