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The True History of Thanksgiving

Grandmother LánéSaán

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Upcoming Live Session

Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM PST

Can't make it? The session will be recorded and available after the live event.

Many of us grew up with one story of Thanksgiving: a peaceful feast between the Pilgrims and Native people, and a simple lesson in gratitude. That story leaves out the people who were already here, and much of what happened to them.

In this live session, Grandmother LánéSaán shares the story as it was passed down to her: who was there, what was lost, and what this history asks of us now.

Send your questions in advance. Grandmother LánéSaán will answer as many as time allows during the Q&A at the end.

Registration: $22. Free for Aniwa Global Portal members.

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English.

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Course itinerary

1 section · 2 lessons

  • Welcome
  • The True History of Thanksgiving

The teacher

Grandmother LánéSaán

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

Yoeme / Apache · United States

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker has been an oracle, healer, spiritual teacher, and environmental guardian for most of her life. LánéSaán began her training in the healing arts at the age of 12 from members of Her family who were highly skilled curanderas (traditional healers who combine Native and Catholic spiritual beliefs and practices). She learned to work with creative expression as a doorway to spirit with her mother as her first teacher. LánéSaán is an accomplished artist, a weaver, and a painter, as well as a dancer and singer, and holds a degree in humanities and the visual arts from the University of Colorado. She has been a licensed minister for more than 42 years and is a Canon in the Brigade of Light. LánéSaán has studied with many spiritual teachers, including artist, writer, and visionary Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow), Eric Tao, and Marian Starnes. In 1987, she met her main teacher and mentor Tu Moonwalker, an Apache, the great great granddaughter of Cochise. Tu was the holder of this unbroken Moonwalker lineage. LánéSaán is an acknowledged part of that in addition to being from an unbroken lineage herself through her Yoeme grandmother. Together Tu and LánéSaán founded the Philosophy of Universal Beingness within the Whole. The foundation of this system is about working with nature in a sacred way.

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