Native American Thanksgiving History

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Across
  1. 2. Traders brought this disease to Wampanoag territory in 1616
  2. 4. Amount of months it took for the Wampanoag to approach the Europeans for fear of getting sick being near them
  3. 7. Place the United States government forcibly sent Native American children to, hundred of miles away from their families, where they were beaten, starved, and abused when they spoke their native languages
  4. 10. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
  5. 13. An area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States
  6. 15. League name of professional sport millions of Americans watch on Thanksgiving day
  7. 18. The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
  8. 20. The religion of the Europeans that colonized Native Americans
Down
  1. 1. The Iroquois and Cherokee called corn, bean, and squash crops this
  2. 3. Name of the colony the Pilgrims started in the U.S.
  3. 5. Type of meat they ate at the first Thanksgiving
  4. 6. The name of the ship that traveled from England to America
  5. 8. U.S. President who made Thanksgiving an official holiday in 1863
  6. 9. Location of the famous Thanksgiving Day parade
  7. 11. The Native American who taught the pilgrims how to grow crops
  8. 12. Native American tribe who helped the Pilgrims survive the first winter in America
  9. 14. Name of the shopping that happens the Friday after Thanksgiving
  10. 16. An English person who came to the United States in 1620
  11. 17. People from culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region
  12. 19. Consequence of Native Americans encounters with Europeans