USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ruth Hopkins, a Native American writer and lawyer and member of the Great Sioux Nation, says the holiday originated after a massacre that killed 700 Pequot in 1637. Months earlier, a white privateer was found dead in his boat, and the colonists blamed the Pequot, who lived at what is now Mystic, Conn.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cherokee Myth of Creation There was a time when there was no earth, and all creatures lived in a place above the sky called Galvlo’i. Everything below was only water, but when Galvlo’i got too crowded, the creatures decided to send down Water Beetle to see if he could find them a new place to live.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture, ” says the United American Indians of New England. They’ve marked the occasion as a day of mourning for 48 years, according to Native Hope.

Detailed explanation-4: -Another theory is that a Native American word for the bird is firkee, which early settlers heard as “turkey.” How that one got started is anyone’s guess.