11/27/2025
Thanksgiving invites gratitude, but it also asks us to tell the truth. The story we were taught was meant to comfort this country, not to honor the history carried in the land.
Indigenous nations endured colonization, attempted erasure, and genocide. Yet they survived. They resisted. They remain.
Greensboro, the place that raised me, rests on the homelands of the Keyauwee, the Saura or Cheraw, the Catawba, and the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.
Their footsteps shaped the Piedmont long before the city existed.
And their descendants still carry that history forward. One of them is Vivette Jeffries-Logan, an enrolled citizen and former Tribal Council member of the Occaneechi people.
Through her work in cultural healing, community leadership, and the protection of identity, she keeps stories alive that colonization tried to silence. Her presence reminds us that Indigenous identity is not a memory.
It breathes. It teaches. It endures. LOOK HER UP AND DONATE TO SUPPORT WORK!
So today, I honor truth as much as I honor gratitude. I honor the first peoples of this land. I honor those who survived what was meant to destroy them.
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Gratitude grows deeper when it grows from truth.
