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Peace on Earth Day

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This Peace on Earth Day:

Curated by Kathleen Cromwell

Kathleen Cromwell is a writer, teacher, speaker, activist and cook. As a reporter-at-large she writes features, commentary, essays and reviews for various venues including: The New Yorker, New York, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Salon, More, Odyssey, Travel Squire, Chilled and the Athens News. She lives in New York with the blues-rock guitarist, Spiros Soukis.

NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

A CANADIAN TRIBE KEEPING

OUR TREE BEINGS ALIVE

A VOICE IN CONGRESS

RUMBLE

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES

NATIONAL MUSEUM

OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

MUSHROOM PEOPLE

A POWERFUL SOLUTION

GHOST DANCE

TERRITORY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

KAKAGON & BAD RIVER SLOUGHS

SHE NEVER DANCES ALONE

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s brilliant book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, strikes the right chord for this season of Thanksgiving, when we celebrate the harvest, feast on the bountiful gifts Mother Earth has provided and express our boundless gratitude for her abundant love and nourishment.

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This animation represents a totem carving by artist Reg Davidson of Haida Nation. It can be seen in front of the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, NY.

Haudenosaunee

Thanksgiving Address

The Thanksgiving Address (the Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen) is the central prayer and invocation for the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations — Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora). It reflects their relationship of giving thanks for life and the world around them. The Haudenosaunee open and close every social and religious meeting with the Thanksgiving Address.

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Giving Thanks Menu

Menu Introduction

From EARTH: The Anthology:

Braiding Sweetgrass by

Robin Wall Kimmerer

In her illuminating collection of essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer lays out in crystalline prose how the Earth, the mother of all mothers, the living, breathing, nurturer on which each of us depends in order to exist, must be understood and truly appreciated before it can get the love and gratitude it so richly deserves.

A scientist as well as member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer, a recent recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, is also, and perhaps primarily, a powerful storyteller.