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I’ll start: I live in Romania, where the tradition is to gather with lots of friends and family. We go see the fireworks in town at midnight, then gather at someone’s home to eat dinner (around 1:00 am), and stay up all night playing board games and watching movies. We all go home around 7:00 am, only to return later for a second night of fun!

I got invited to attend a formal sweat lodge ceremony and I’m super excited!

My family cooks Chinese for New Years. Nope we are not Asian, lol. We make dumplings and this year are doing a Chinese roast chicken instead of duck, and will probably have a veggie stir fry as well.

@CarlyManciu - my dad is Spanish/French/Apache/Navajo; He’s enrolled Navajo. My mom is English/Scottish/Cherokee/Cree/Choctaw; she is enrolled Choctaw. My maternal grandpa was never enrolled, so my “blood quantum ” is insufficient for tribal enrollment in any of my ancestral tribes. The lodge I’m attending is a collaboration between some of my Seneca-Cayuga friends, and some of their Shoshone friends that have come down to visit. It’s a women’s only sweat lodge and the focus is drawing back of power for victims of domestic and sexual abuse.