I am so grateful! In no way could I fit all my gratitude into one day out of the year. I'm thankful every day. I do believe that being grateful keeps us in a good vibration and closer to love. Gratitude is also the gateway to creation.
One thing that I don’t celebrate is what the common Thanksgiving holiday represents and all its hypocrisy. What person is going to be happy to be forced to embrace customs and traditions and beliefs that are not their own, or to be pushed out of their native land?
If we put things in perspective, we might admit that the colonization that led to the United States of America was similar to an episode of the Walking Dead minus the walkers. Let’s take the case of John Smith. By comparison, John Smith didn’t behave too differently from “villain” Negan in The Walking Dead. Initially, Smith made the natives comfortable by trading metal tools for provisions. I imagine Negan might have started in a similar way. Eventually, Governor John Smith—just like Negan—sent out raiding parties demanding food from the natives. Smith’s raiding parties burned down Native American’s housings stealing their food supplies. Our history books depicted Native Americans as ‘savages’ using examples such as the Powhatan tribes that fought back the exploitations by the settlers killing high numbers of the white population. Funny how a little over a hundred years later, settlers fought and killed British soldiers. This was their fight against the British Ruler's oppression and exploitation of the settlers, which ironically is what settlers continued to impose on Native Americans.
Among other wars, after Revolutionary War then came the Cherokee-American wars, the Northwest Indian War, Tecumseh, the Creek War, the War of 1812, the removal era wars (such as the Black Hawk War, the Creek War of 1836, and the Second Seminole War), Texas-Indian War, all the wars of the Pacific Northwest, I feel disrespectful not listing them all since so many lives were taken but more than a history lesson, this post is meant to be a humanity lesson.
Let us fast-forward to today, Native Americans lands are still being raided but now by corporations which hold the same disregard for our Native Americans as our ancestors held since Columbus first arrived in future Hispaniola—setting precedent with the eventually horrific treatment of the friendly, native Arawaks.
Yes, in fast-forwarding to today, I’m referring to the treatment of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who still today in 2016 are fighting to protect the little land they have left, their drinking water and Native American cultural sites.
I believe that every American should be apologizing to Native Americans and showing our gratitude for the land we stole from them by today standing by the Sioux Tribe and demanding that President Obama and future presidents protect the rights and lands of every Native American tribe. The exploitation of the True indigenous people of our United States must stop today.
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