Traditions of the Land

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Across
  1. 2. English settlers established their colony here in present-day Massachusetts.
  2. 7. Ship that carried the Pilgrims to North America in 1620.
  3. 9. Patuxet man who taught the Pilgrims farming and fishing techniques.
  4. 10. Month in which the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is observed.
  5. 12. Process that led to loss of Native lands and independence after early peace ended.
  6. 15. President who temporarily moved Thanksgiving earlier to extend the shopping season.
  7. 16. Indigenous nation that aided the Pilgrims and joined the 1621 harvest celebration.
Down
  1. 1. Annual protest held in Plymouth by Native Americans to challenge the Thanksgiving myth.
  2. 3. Last name of the woman whose advocacy helped create the Thanksgiving holiday.
  3. 4. Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag who allied with the Pilgrims.
  4. 5. Modern name of the river near which the 1637 Pequot Massacre occurred.
  5. 6. Squanto’s tribe and village, found deserted when the Pilgrims arrived.
  6. 8. President who proclaimed a national Thanksgiving during the Civil War.
  7. 11. English settlers often credited (inaccurately) with “discovering” an empty land.
  8. 13. Indigenous group nearly destroyed by colonial and allied forces in 1637.
  9. 14. Spanish port city where Squanto was first taken and sold into slavery.