11. Native American languages are disappearing.
As the Native American population dwindles, so do their many languages. There were once approximately 20 million Native Americans in North America and now there are less than two million. At one time, there were as many as 250 indigenous languages spoken in the U.S. and Canada—today only eight remain.
12. Thanksgiving.
In 1621, one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations was with the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag, but no turkey was served. The Native Americans often consumed wild turkey but it wasn’t mentioned at all in the eyewitness account from Edward Winslow. He did say, however, that the hunters brought back waterfowl like ducks and geese.
