Across
- 4. Tribe that was massacred by pilgrims in 1636, after which the Pilgrims celebrated a day of Thanksgiving
- 7. Geographic location of Pilgrims’ first fort and meeting house (two words, no space)
- 9. Animal whose discovery by archaeologists demonstrated that recent excavations at Plymouth were inside the walls of the first fort
- 10. Number of Wampanoag attendees at the so-called first Thanksgiving
- 12. Artifact type recovered from trashpits that indicate more extensive interaction between Pilgrims and the Wampanoag than have previously been imagined
- 13. Last name of Apache/Cahuilla poet who wrote “Who has given more than the Indian?”
Down
- 1. President who declared Thanksgiving would be the second to last Thursday of November
- 2. Pilgrim settlement where first Thanksgiving is thought to have taken place
- 3. Last name of woman who proposed the formalization of a Thanksgiving holiday in the context of the Civil War
- 4. Wampanoag earthenware cooking pot, the remains of which have been found in Pilgrims’ hearths
- 5. Name of Wampanoag village that had been abandoned after a disease hit its community, that was also the location of the first Pilgrim settlement in New England
- 6. First feature that archaeologists searched for to find the site of the first Thanksgiving
- 8. President who declared Thanksgiving would be the last Thursday of November
- 11. Meat that was not consumed at the first Thanksgiving