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Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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On the Coloring Sheets page, there is a new sheet for Indigenous Peoples’ Day which is today. Below I will explain what each square represents. I’m glad that we are beginning to acknowledge the people who were here long before the Europeans arrived and drastically changed things through their way of life, their diseases, their concepts of ownership, and of course, their biases, which for many remain today.

I am determined to remind myself and others that the land I live and work on once belonged to the world, and the Haudenosaunee (in my specific area) were the caretakers. They were willing to help the new settlers, and did. And I’m sure regretted it. The Europeans weren’t exactly grateful in the long run.

Wherever you live look at the names of the towns. Across this country (the US) and Canada you will find many towns and streets are named with Native American names. I like to look into some of those names and see what they mean in the various languages.

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New Color Sheets

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There are new coloring sheets on the downloadable page on the sidebar. One of these comes from one of my favorite Bible stories as a child.

I was attending mass a few weeks ago, and the daily reading was Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a when Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt for grain during the famine and he imprisons them. He does let them know with conditions. Daily readings are often not the whole story, and hearing this little snippet of Joseph’s reunion with his brothers (even if they didn’t recognize him) caused me to go home that morning, and read the entire story from this point on until Joseph’s reunion with his father, Jacob.

As a child, I was focused more on Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors (Gen. 37:3). I didn’t see it, but I remember Donny Osmond playing Joseph on Broadway’s The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and I also recall my uncle in the same role in high school, so Joseph has always had a warm place in my heart.

After reading the story, I sat down and drew the coat of many colors, but before I filled in all the bright and beautiful colors, I took a photo of just the pen & ink sketch and saved it for use as a coloring sheet. I hope you will enjoy sitting in a quiet space, and filling in the patchwork with as many of your favorite colors as will fit.

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