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There are many hundreds of native American languages. Just a few of the many different words meaning turkey are:

Lakota...............................zizicha or waglekshun

Arapaho.............................beescénee

Cheyenne..........................ma'xe'ne

Blackfoot............................ómahksipi'kss

Powhatan...........................monanaw, moninagh, monynawgh

Abenaki...............................nahama

Maliseet...............................nehm

Mohegan..............................náham

Ojibwe..................................bagwaj'-mizise

Delaware (Lenape).............tschikenum, gulukochsun

Shawnee.............................pellewa

Navajo.................................tazhii

Apache................................tazhi

Jicarilla.................................kazhi

Sanish (Arikara)...................nu'

Sahaptin (Yakama)...............táki or kwilkwilla

Mohawk................................skawerowane

Cherokee..............................gána

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The term "Turkey" being a Native American word, or being of Native American origin is a myth. Early settlers mistook the bird for a type of fowl that Europe imported from the nation of Turkey; and simply put that is where the name originates.

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