The harvest celebration is ancient and global but Thanksgiving is American.
Our shared dinner with the early welcoming Wampanog is gracious.
But never happened.
Our first settlers were taught how to grow food suitable for the climate.
We weren't an an invading Army in their eyes since we brought women and children.
But they were wrong.
We arrived bringing pandemics to our 10,000 year old cultural Americans.
Today our benfactors are left with a tenth of 1% of their original lands.
Sing our Thanksgiving song
Bless the families with empty chairs this year
Bless each other for surviving all our fears
and bless the rest who had reasons for their tears