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The Fish
We turn our minds to all the Fish life in the water. They were instructed to cleanse and purify the water. They also give themselves to us as food. We are grateful that we can still find pure water. So, we turn now to the Fish and send our greetings and thanks.
As we accelerate Life's connectedness with our mobile culture, with our new understanding of biology, with forums like this,Ask the native empire builders if they would give up the horse. If ya want to talk raw numbers, be sure to count world wide deaths from tobacco over the years. Unintended consequences are rife.I have no truck with devotees of Genocide Day.After being separated by the break up of the continents 250 million years ago.
I'm with Charles Mann, (& Jared Diamond, "Guns,Germs & Steel"), the Colombian Exchange was the reunification of life on earth.
Winners & losers on all sides.
I give thanks that we may understand the past more fully in this new light.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Meg Muckenhoupt <meg...@gmail.com> wrote:
Our modern Thanksgiving had its origins in the Civil War. It hasn't always been about celebrating the European conquest of the Americas. See for example Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863:And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
Would that we would remember the peace activists of past centuries...Meg Muckenhoupt
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Goreau <gor...@bestweb.net> wrote:
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THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
Words That Come Before All Else
The Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen means “Words That Come Before All Else.” It is also referred to as “The Thanksgiving Address,” “Giving Greetings to the Natural World,” or “The Opening Address.“ Traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) say these words to begin and end each day, important meetings, ceremonies, and socials. The Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen is an expression of acknowledgement, greetings, love, and appreciation for every part of the Natural World. The Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen helps to bring the thoughts of the people together. It is a way by which the Haudenosaunee remind themselves that human beings are only one strand in the Web of Life and that we are all connected to each other and to the rest of Creation.
Below is a video presentation featuring Mohawk storyteller Kay Olan's spoken version of the Thanksgiving Address along with images created by Tuscarora graphic artist Melanie Printup Hope (http://www.artinjun.ca/printup_hope/) supplemented with additional photographs.
Whenever that was written, and for whatever context, it is titled a "Thanksgiving" prayer and listed as such on the firstpeople.us website, which, I assume, is setup for and by "first people".