7.15: How to Center Indigenous Peoples During Thanksgiving

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

I made my “Untold Story of Thanksgiving” episode to help me — and hopefully you — understand the true, accurate history. As I think about the episode, I think it does a good job at correcting the history, but it still centers on the colonizers.

Because of that, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can better make Indigenous Peoples the center of our conversations and learning around Thanksgiving, and I knew just the right person to turn to to help me.

On this week’s episode, my dear friend Jalynne Geddes joins me to help unpack what we can do to center Indigenous Peoples. Jalynne is Nehiyaw from the Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation and is the creator behind the Nehiyanahk Creations on Instagram, where she shares her work as an activist both through words and through her beautiful beadwork.

In this episode, you’ll learn more about how our Indigenous brothers and sisters feel about Thanksgiving, how to center them during this time and how we can teach our kids about this as well.

I hope by the end of this you have a clear understanding of what you can do in your family to decenter colonizers and instead give your focus to Indigenous Peoples this Thanksgiving.

Check out our Thanksgiving resources

Thanksgiving is this week, and we have a gaggle of free resources for you!

Want some ideas for how to talk to your kids’ teachers about teaching Thanksgiving in an inclusive, Indigenous-centered way? Head to firstnamebasis.org/teachingthanksgiving for some sample letters and a free download that you can send to teachers to get the conversation going!

Looking for ways to center Indigenous Peoples’ in your family’s Thanksgiving celebration? Head to firstnamebasis.org/thanksgiving to get some ideas sent straight to your inbox!

Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced In The Episode

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 3: “The Untold Story of Thanksgiving”

Jalynne Geddes’ Instagram @nehiyanahk_creations

Mark Ruffalo’s land acknowledgement at the Emmy’s

Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 7, Episode 15,
0:05.4	How to Center Indigenous Peoples during Thanksgiving with Jalen Gettus.
0:17.4	Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.
0:25.5	First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your community.
0:33.6	Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want,
0:39.7	a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage.
0:45.0	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you.
0:53.2	Hello, First Name Basis fam. I am so glad you are here. Thank you. Hello, first name basis fam.
0:55.2	I am so glad you are here.
0:58.4	Today, we are talking about Thanksgiving, and we are talking specifically about
1:02.4	centering indigenous peoples on Thanksgiving and around Thanksgiving, because if you
1:08.5	remember, I made an episode, oh, was it a couple seasons ago? It was the
1:13.8	untold story of Thanksgiving. I think it might have actually been the very first untold story
1:18.6	episode I ever made. Oh my gosh, that is wild to think about. I will link that episode in the show
1:25.1	notes, the untold story of Thanksgiving. And I made that episode
1:28.4	because I felt like I didn't have a clear understanding of what really happened in the history
1:34.0	when it came to quote unquote the first Thanksgiving. And as I have reflected on making that
1:40.4	episode, I'm glad it's out there, but it really centers the colonizers. It really
1:45.1	centers the white European settlers who came and stole the land from the indigenous peoples.
1:49.9	And I thought, what would it look like for us to truly understand how we can make the
1:56.5	indigenous people the center of our focus during this time. Because if you remember, one really important
2:03.7	tenant of anti-racism is taking the people who are always at the center and moving them to the
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