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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
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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