Today's Date: June 1, 2023
Eikon Therapeutics Builds Leading Clinical Development Organization with Appointment of Senior Team with Extensive Industry Expe   •   Forever Confidence Aesthetics and Spa: Revolutionizing Post-Surgery Care and Empowering Women   •   Schrödinger to Present at Goldman Sachs 44th Annual Global Healthcare Conference   •   The Max Foundation to Launch Treatment Access for Advanced Breast Cancer in Nine Countries Across Africa, Latin America, and Sou   •   Cutera® Celebrates One Year of Revolutionizing the Acne Market with AviClear® During Acne Awareness Month   •   Hess Celebrates the Mini Toy Truck's 25th Silver Anniversary   •   Experienced Equities Sales Trader Joins American Veterans Group   •   Copper Mountain Mining Publishes 2022 ESG Report   •   Alzheimer's Association to Host Rallies in All 50 States to Make New Treatments for Alzheimer's Accessible   •   EoS Fitness Debuts New Gym in Henderson   •   Ready, Set, Register: Sign up now for St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend   •   Ecolomondo Concludes an Amending Agreement With Export Development Canada (EDC)   •   RenovoRx Initiates Patient Enrollment at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for Pivotal Phase III TIGeR-PaC Clinica   •   Women For Economic Leadership and Development Appoints Kate Visconti to National Advisory Council   •   Submissions Now Open for $1 Million USD Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge   •   PulteGroup Breaks Ground on New Mortgage-Free Home for U.S. Air Force Veteran in Michigan   •   Maze Therapeutics to Participate in the 2023 Jefferies Healthcare Conference   •   YES Hosts National RoundTable Event- Changing Tides-Resiliency in a Wave of Financial Crisis   •   Visible Wireless Partners with Benny Drama, The Old Gays for "No Straight Answers," the New Cross-Generational Game Show Celebra   •   Advancing Economic Justice for People with Disabilities
Bookmark and Share

Native Americans Rally Against Hunger

 LEBANON, OR - Grassroots advocate for peace, 3 Sun Thanksgiving, is rallying American communities, churches, and families to participate in a new year-round living history hobby that ultimately raises funds to open micro-lending facilities on destitute American Indian reservations. 3 Sun Thanksgiving’s founder, Carrie Franzwa, believes mainstream Americans will embrace the new concept as people come to recognize the cultural and economic advantages inherent in the movement.

Initially Franzwa is finding resistance due in large part to Thanksgiving stereotypes. “The incorrect 1690’s Puritan culture is a rather unappealing prospect for a living history hobby. The good news is 1621 New England was Renaissance English and Native Wampanoag, both of which elicit much more cultural interest and charm,” says Franzwa.

In order to help Americans explore the new hobby and concept, 3SunThanksgiving.com was launched in July of this year. As the first online Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day Cultural Exchange Platform of its kind in America, the website aids group participation, and provides hot topic forums and free educational resources aimed at building American cross-cultural relationships. As part of the platform’s $16 pilot fundraiser, a 140-page living history how-to guide details the re-creation of 1621 English and Native Wampanoag life.

“On the one hand we want Americans to time travel for the fun of it, and on the other hand we want to whole-heartedly support the self-help efforts of American Indians,” says Franzwa. “Native Peoples are the very poorest socio-economic segment of our society, with seven out of ten of America’s poorest counties all on Indian Reservations. Regardless of the perceived reasons for the suffering, we all win when we pull together to create economic opportunity.”

Franzwa notes that up in the Dakotas destitute reservation residents have been organizing themselves in an effort to start up cottage industries, only to be rejected or preyed upon by traditional lending institutions. “These courageous people would stand a chance if they had Grameen micro-lending facilities up there. Grameen is one of the only micro-lenders that will serve the truly destitute,” says Franzwa. “The one caveat being they require on-site facilities since they work side by side with entrepreneurs to insure their success. Only a caring greater community has the power to fund those facilities.”

In order to solicit evangelizing help and participation in the new hobby and outreach, 3 Sun Thanksgiving is focusing first on reaching larger churches throughout the western part of the country. “It will take one million initial supporters to build the first $2M micro-lending facility in the Dakotas,” says Franzwa. “Only volunteer synergy will get us to those kind of numbers.”

Carrie Franzwa is a sought after public speaker in her home state of Oregon, and is the author of seven K-8 education titles which she markets through her parent website LetsPlayHistory.org. 3 Sun Thanksgiving is an offshoot project of LetsPlayHistory.org, and is supported in part through a marketing partnership with Total Media Source out of Harrison, Ohio.


STORY TAGS: NATIVE AMERICAN , INDIAN , NATIVES , MINORITY , CIVIL RIGHTS , DISCRIMINATION , RACISM , DIVERSITY , RACIAL EQUALITY , BIAS , EQUALITY

Video

White House Live Stream
LIVE VIDEO EVERY SATURDAY
alsharpton Rev. Al Sharpton
9 to 11 am EST
jjackson Rev. Jesse Jackson
10 to noon CST


Video

LIVE BROADCASTS
Sounds Make the News ®
WAOK-Urban
Atlanta - WAOK-Urban
KPFA-Progressive
Berkley / San Francisco - KPFA-Progressive
WVON-Urban
Chicago - WVON-Urban
KJLH - Urban
Los Angeles - KJLH - Urban
WKDM-Mandarin Chinese
New York - WKDM-Mandarin Chinese
WADO-Spanish
New York - WADO-Spanish
WBAI - Progressive
New York - WBAI - Progressive
WOL-Urban
Washington - WOL-Urban

Listen to United Natiosns News