November is Native American Heritage Month and the time of

year when we observe Thanksgiving, a holiday whose

beginnings were predicated on acknowledging our blessings

with gratefulness for a shared, bounteous meal between two

very different cultures with two very different concepts of land

ownership. At this moment in time, there are two majorly

horrendous wars being waged in the world. Mama B. hopes

listeners will realize some of the commonality of experiences

between America’s Native Americans and the participants in

the current Israel-Hamas War. Her goal is for listeners to think

about the intersectionality of political ideologies, religious

beliefs and their mandates, and most of all. . . how land is

central to human existence.