As Americans, we’re preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving a holiday that commemorates the coming together of Native American’s and colonists to share a meal. It’s also a time to reflect on gratitude, which is an important practice we should participate in all year round. Because of our history with the Native American people, I pondered this question, what happened after the first Thanksgiving? Also, how do we move away from apathy and awaken compassion and concern for our Native American Brothers and Sisters? Join me in a conversation with my friend Alex Rousseau as we explore these things and more while Getting Real Immersed in Truth.

If you’d like to join Alex in showing love and compassion to those living on the Omaha Reservation you can donate hats, gloves, and scarves that will go to the children on the Reservation. Donations can be brought to MiddleCross Church at 2600 N 70th. You can contact Alex through email [email protected].

Also, please consider if you have a business or skill that you’re willing to teach consider investing in the Omaha Reservation to give them an opportunity to contribute and thrive on their own.

For more information on books discussed and the movie Alex suggested. Click on the links below-notes:

The Other Slavery By Andres Resendez

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States For Young People By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Movie

Also, check out the YouTube Video We Are Still Here: Four Hundred Years of Wampanoag History Which is the tribe that is noted to have hosted the first Thanksgiving. 

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The podcast is written and produced by me - Robrenna Redl, and Hand-crafted Studios Editor/ Producer Michael Coffey

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