The Real Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• wampanoag : the land now known as massachusetts was occupied by the _ when the pilgrims first arrived.
• robbed : the pilgrims _ the graves and villages that had been deserted after the epidemic, and promised to pay the wampanoag back but never did.
• wiped out : the previous inhabitants of patuxet had been _ _ by a plague brought by european settlers to the region.
• untamed : many american history books claim that the land was _ before europeans settled there. however, it was already inhabited, farmed and managed by the indigenous people living there.
• colonial : the _ period lasted from when europeans first landed in the americas until the american revolution.
• patuxet : the wampanoag village that the pilgrims built their settlement on was called _ .
• burden : historian david silverman argues that the myth of the "first" thanksgiving creates a heavy emotional _ for native americans.
• ousamequin : _ , the leader of the wampanoag, made an alliance with the pilgrims to protect himself from other indigenous nations in the area.
• myth : it is a _ to refer to the feast between the pilgrims and the wampanoag was the "first" thanksgiving - in reality, thanksgiving was already celebrated by some protestants, and there are many celebrations in indigenous cultures across the americas that can be called "thanksgivings".
• king phillip's war : _ _ _ was war waged by the wampanoag people against their colonizers several decades after the "first" thanksgiving, and was the deadliest war in america until the civil war.