November 2024

To read more of the First Nations article, please click here, Understanding Thanksgiving from Our Side of the Table | First Nations Development Institute . Most historians document that in 1621 there was indeed a First Thanksgiving but Native people were not invited guests to this celebration. Nonetheless, Wampanoag soldiers showed up to the Pilgrim celebration after hearing celebratory gunshots and screams from Pilgrim settlements. The Wampanoag soldiers, historians suggest, thought the...

To read more of Rosie Colosi's article, please click here, Her tribe was at the first Thanksgiving. She's an ordinary 16-year-old ... and a Powwow Princess . Picture credit: Eli Faria for TODAY In many ways, Ciara Hendricks is a typical 16-year-old. She's a junior at Mashpee Middle-High School on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She plays basketball, lacrosse and field hockey. She works two part-time jobs, and she's considering pursuing nursing after she graduates, just like her mom and sisters.

To read more of Lisa Deaderick' article, please click here. Raised in a family of musicians, Melissa Little Wolf Villalobos was introduced to Native American music by her elders. She first heard the sounds of Native American flautist R. Carols Nakai, of Navajo and Ute heritage, when she was 5 years old. Nakai’s music has been a big influence on her own journey playing and performing on the flute. “After hearing flute for the first time, I recall how peaceful and powerful it made me feel,”...