Marianne needs my attention + Something to think about...

Dear Lagniappe Family and Friends - 

Hope all of you are doing well. 

There is a lil' something here in France called Qualiopi, a Marianne creation, in which ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL companies that provide training courses must have in order to exist. As you may or may not know our sister company, The L31 Workshop provides training courses. So we are taking our resources this week and focusing them on getting her where she needs to be. 

If you are interested in the services that we provide, you can check out the website for the L31 Workshop here. 

We will continue our celebration of Native American Heritage Month next week during Thanksgiving - which to some of our Native American sisters and brothers a national day of mourning...

video source: SmithsonianNMAI - The Invention of Thanksgiving 

As we move into the holiday - take a moment to read about this perspective

(The information below is directly from: What does Thanksgiving Mean to Indigenous Peoples? )

• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Do American Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving?
• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving
• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Everyone's history matters: The Wampanoag Indian Thanksgiving story deserves to be known
  
• Oyato.org: Deconstructing the Myths of "The First Thanksgiving"
• The New Yorker: The Invention of Thanksgiving: Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

Check out the following books on the subject of Thanksgiving and our Native Ameircan sisters and brothers: This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman, and for children, 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving by Margaret M. Bruchac (Abenaki) and Catherine Grace O’Neill. For more resources for kids see Talking to Kids About Thanksgiving.