For those who celebrated Thanksgiving Day yesterday I hope it was spent the way you fully enjoyed it! Today is just as important if not more so as it is a day to celebrate Native American Heritage Day! If not for the indigenous people of the USA there would not be a Thanksgiving Day. Even with the United States government forcibly moving these tribes and nations off the land the traveled and farmed for centuries before the first Europeans arrived on our eastern shores the land would be totally wild and untamed. We can learn a lot about living in harmony with Mother Earth and its natural inhabitants by looking to their way of life centuries ago for guidance. I am proud to be from the Choctaw tribe that broke off from the “Trail of Tears” in Louisiana. Many tribes and nations were effect negatively by being forced to march during a bitter winter to reservations where the US government thought they should live after stealing their land. Yes, I feel strongly about what did and is happening to all US indigenous people. It is with a heavy heart for those that died and were killed along the very long and dangerous journey that I celebrate this very important day! Please joining in lighting a candle and giving thanks for their continuing struggle to regain lands that were stolen or supposedly bought from all tribes and nations in our land!
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