Truthsgiving: A Cultural Repair + Healing Ceremony '26

An indigenous-led alternative to "Thanksgiving Day" to honor the wholeness and dignity of lineage, to compost the wounds of colonialism, and to walk forward as a united peoples.

We all come from people who gathered around fires—singing, dancing, grieving, storytelling, and caring for each other and the earth in deep reciprocity. We all carry the impacts of colonization in our ancestral lines. Through this shared history, our liberation is intertwined.

This 90-minute ceremony includes meditation invoking ancestry, song honoring our lineage, prayer and offerings to Ancestors of Wholeness, space for metabolizing grief, light journaling, and witnessing each other's reflections.

This is the fourth year of hosting this community ceremony. Last year we were joined by over eighty kin in this ceremony, with feedback of great ancestral break-through, connection, and gratitude.

This year, we will be purposefully praying alongside the Deep Time Ancestors and the Future Ancestors, praying outside of linear time and partnering with all beings who carry these prayers with us.

Come listen to the heartbeat beneath our shared history, where deep connection breathes itself into restoration.

It is an honor to share space in this way on this day.

What past "Truthsgiving" participants have shared:

"I've never felt so connected to my ancestors before. I never knew that I could feel that kind of strong and loving energy from them, that I could feel truly connected to them. Thank you for making this space so safe for everyone."

"The Truthsgiving Ceremony was like nothing I've ever experienced before. I didn't know that prayer could be like that, and feel so real. I will never look at this day the same."

"I felt my ancestors literally with me during the ceremony for the first time. They were so grateful to be recognized and spoken to. Thank you."

"I feel so touched by this experience. During this time and around these topics, there is usually such shame and division and I feel overwhelmed by guilt. Thank you so so much for creating a space for everyone to belong, for all of our ancestors to be honored, for healing to really happen between everyone."

This is a great gathering to host in community, with family and/or friends. Last year multiple groups of folks each registered for a ticket separately and then gathered together and participated on one screen. I really love this!

This ceremony is offered on a sliding scale for both financial accessibility and reparations during this significant cultural time.

When choosing your rate, please consider this an opportunity to interrupt a long cultural history: the offerings of indigenous peoples being taken without fair reciprocity.

This is a chance to participate in reparations and the redistribution of wealth back to Indigenous Peoples and their work.

$33+ Sliding Scale

For those facing housing and food insecurity who truly cannot afford the low end of the scale, enter Access Code: SUPPORTED for a $11-$32 ticket

For Indigenous and Black folks who would like to come and not pay to register, enter Access Code: SOLIDARITY for a $0-32 ticket

Humanitix donates 100% of your registration fee to fund projects for children globally.

If you can't make this ceremony and would like to directly contribute to Indigenous reparations and cultural work in honor of this day, you can share support through Patreon or Ko-Fi here (like Patreon, with less fees).

Facilitated by Alyx Somas of The Collectivity Project

This is a labor to restore our relations with spirit, our people, and the earth.

Centering collective re-indigenization, we uplift indigenous lineage teachings to remember our true human nature—deep beauty and interdependence. This work mends the primal wound of our severed belonging to village.

Together, we learn to navigate through colonial culture without shame or blame. We stop individualizing what is systemic. Instead, we empower our communities with practical tools for belonging-based justice and liberation.

Alyx Somas is a 2S Native North American of multiple tribal and detribalized peoples from north and south of the contrived border of so-called "United States" and so-called "Mexico." Rooted in life-honoring ancestral teachings, they walk as a Culture Tender, Re-indigenization Practitioner, and Collective Liberationist, guiding communities to re-member our truest human natures and restore relationship with lineage, land, and kinship-based lifeways.

Raised by a family of 200+ kin, Alyx carries the gift of intergenerational belonging — a bone-deep knowing that we are not meant to navigate life alone, that we are wired for community, for ritual, for being witnessed and held. Training to be a Good Elder, their prayer is for worldwide pan-cultural revival and the reimagining of our village interdependence within the ecosystems of modernity.

Alyx is the founder of the Collectivity Project, an indigenous response to polycrisis, genocide, and ecocide — anchored in the truth that we all come from people who gathered around fires storytelling, dancing, and grieving together in medicinal ways.

They are a council member and cultural consultant for Cascadia Song Rise, Stellar Village, Conscious Growth Convergence, Revival Gatherings, Grieving Man, Temple of Belonging, and the Grief Tender Mentoring Program. They offer ceremonies, workshops, consultation, and mentorship in ancestral healing, cross-cultural bridging, grief and initiation work, and belonging-based decolonial systems.

May this work nurture our sacred responsibility as living ancestors.

Learn more about ceremonies, workshops, consultation, and mentorship through the Collectivity Project’s Instagram and Website Join the email list here.

If you believe this cultural work is important and would like to contribute a monthly amount to sustain it, you can support Alyx's Ko-fi here.