Smudging Thanksgiving Ceremony 2020
Commemorating todays NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING,
Created by the Wampanoag First Nation People of New England/Massachusetts and what the white people call THANKSGIVING.
As a young adult free spirit, my community would smudge our cabins/homes as a way to cleanse since the days I lived in Colorado. But it was Amos Owen, Dakota Medicine man at Prairie Island, who really taught me the power of smudging.
2020 the transformative year of incredible challenges, devastation and political turmoil. Let us purify our homes and spirit in preparation of tomorrow and begin the Healing of COVID and the Healing in Our Hearts and move forward with the power of our Ancestors and Loved Ones to a New and Vibrant Future United as One People of Mother Earth! And Give Thanks each and everyday we are here alive, living and breathing!