Show my PY fly we ay have thanksgiving turkey times a year at thanksgiving christmas and new years the people of the td d states advance upon a huge golden bronze fowl cut croat lii roat strip it of its plumage convert it into a savory dish i i fairly makes the old table 1 i under the extra burden since lave raised this bird into a nal significance which parallels i almost equal degree that of a agle mi e symbol lymb ol 01 of the govern itself s e it it ha has s a special interest I 1 americans al although though many may still be as poor as jobs y says a writer in pathfinder zine they somehow manage contrive to have turkey f for 0 r ks giving whether they can or it t afford it years gone by those families could not afford turkey turned P icken duck beef rabbit or pork and were glad to get it j inow now lets get back to the ques bf f why we have or try to have hav e nold like to have or imagine we A I 1 like to have turkey thanksgiving hanks giving dinner the an OZ of course is that the turkey icily an american bird and ig g it at feasts of thanksgiving old and ancient american to some S 0 a authorities will tell it lat w we eat eat turkey on thanks day because after the first st in the fall of 1621 the pil fathers at plymouth set aside iod for feasting and offering 1 I V le Is regarded as an Arne rican bird to provide food lor for this hunters were sent out by gov gbradford bradford and an d they returned A a i large supply of game hosny was extended to the indians I 1 0 whom attended the festival lasted for three thice days con jus us among the game gama on the were numerous wild turkeys common in the woods of mas fretts fe etts from this circum nothey they say arose the popular lation atlon of these birds with belying days 1101 ot counsels cour course sels is the true origin 41 KI custom so tar far as white man een concerned with it but th the e J ot of turkey feasts reacts goes back tf farther the millions of fam plan plan on enjoying hea hearty arty 10 misgiving Ug iving turkey dinners this jwill in reality be observing torn tom that prevailed ages before ile grims rims first gathered around their festive board in new england smithsonian institution records now bridge the years that veil the aboriginal civilizations and show that the indians of the southwest domesticated turkeys and fattened them for their ceremonial feasts while the pilgrim fathers grateful for good harvests and a year of prosperity in the new world decided on a day of thanks thanksgiving giving to be celebrated at a ban banquet or of roast turkey really gave posterity the s spirit p i r i t of thanksgiving the practice of such feasts had been established long before by the cliff dwellers who actually got their birds from a pen as we do today and not from a thicket as the pilgrims did according to smithsonian records the turkey of the aboriginal indians more nearly approximated the V when the festive bird goes into the oven thanksgiving turkey of today than the scrawny wild fowl felled by the blunderbuss of the pilgrim huntsman most of our domesticated varieties of turkeys today are really descended from the mexican wild turkey that ranged over arizona western new mexico and southern colorado virtually the dooryard of IL earliest american civilization the pilgrim turkey was merely the wild variety of the same bird which roarn roamed ed the eastern part of the just as the turkey was exclusively an american bird in the time of 0 the aberl aboriginal inal indians so it is today no fowl from any foreign country approximates it in fact wherever turkeys are raised today and they have been introduced to many foreign countries the ancestral stock came from america and so tar far as is known turkeys are never imported to this country contrary to popular opinion the t he turkey did not get its name from turkey the country of that name the first turkeys taken from the new world america and sold in spain were handled handle fl largely by hebrew merchants since t the h e turkey was frequently confused with the peacock it was quite natural that the hebrew trades should apply to it their name for the peacock or tukki 1 more or less common use of this name followed which easily became in english our present name turkey |