Native people in the Americas often get left out of our Thanksgiving celebrations, except in our retelling of the often apocryphal “first Thanksgiving” stories we learned in grade school. Here is a meaningful call-and-response prayer from the Haudenosaunee native tradition to give some perspective on thanks and providence this Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy! Thanksgiving Address GREETINGS [...]
Archive for November, 2009
16 Nov
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/ Based on the children’s book by the same title, the film is just as powerful. Two 8-year-old boys become unlikely friends in Nazi Germany — one the son of a Nazi commandant and the other an imprisoned Jew. Seeing the Holocaust from the perspective of its youngest observers and participants really puts the atrocity [...]
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