For many, Thanksgiving opens the holiday season, anticipating Christmas, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Eide, Hanukkah... It's the day in which we put aside all concerns, eat until we can't stay awake, take warm, cozy naps, and root for our teams. Year after year we rise early, roast and bake, to go "over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house."

I would like to suggest that when we say grace on that day, after we thank our Creator, we pay homage to the beings who have lived on this earth without owning it, who consider giving the greatest source of honor, whose teachings set the example of how to live in harmony with nature, the Native American Nations who hold this land sacred.