Today is Thanksgiving day, and although for many of us it has become associated with togetherness, gratitude, and celebration- it becomes our responsibility to question the history these associations have been built upon. The history of Thanksgiving is traced back to the British colonial settlers and the Wampanoag tribe. The colonials were arriving with a lack of basic knowledge on how to survive in Nature, how to maintain themselves, and a host of sicknesses and...
The continent is Africa (Meritah). A full moon has risen early in a still sunlit sky. A village compound with a carpenter on a low stool in the center of the yard building a large frame using raffia bamboo. The carpenter’s seven-year-old son enters the yard and starts this conversation. “Tapsei, Papa (Good work, Papa). That’s a big moon tonight, Papa.“ “O yes,” the carpenter says, continuing to measure, cut, and chisel bamboo. He is...
Team Coordinators:
Wisam Mubasher
HatikaHeru Nejitef
Writing Team:
Tara Cuskley
Wisam Mubasher
Stasia Johnson
Whitney Jackson
TiaNeith Tenkawur
Shemzheru Tenkawur
Design Team:
Sanchaya Satish
Kemeera Nimahat
KaSati HeqAma
Rahimi Boumaaktem
Sandy Belton
Kasim Smith
Oladipo Sagoe
Teresa Sandford
Posting & Scheduling Team:
Wisam Mubasher
Stasia Johnson
HezTah HetakaTah
KaSati HeqAma
Additional Contributors:
Nehez Meniooh
Kasabez Maakmaah
SaMa’at Sakuhai
Djedka Zeshera
Menkashoo Boumaaktem
