By Hailey Mergen <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When most people think of Thanksgiving, they think of food. However, the real origin of Thanksgiving started with Native Americans. There is a lot of Native American history around Armstrong County. Three of the main local ones are the Alligewi, Delaware, and Kithanink people. The Delaware people migrated to the east coast from the west somewhere between 700 A.D. and 1100 A.D. During this migration, they encountered the Alligewi people and they argued over hunting and land ownership. The Delaware people eventually managed to push them Southwest past the Ohio River. The Alligewi are also called Talligewi, which can be translated to \u201cAncient Ones.\u201d The Allegheny River and Mountains were named after this tribe. The Delaware people are traditionally referred to as Lenni, or Lenape, meaning \u201cReal People.\u201d When interviewed about his knowledge of local Native American cultures, Mr.<\/strong> Henry<\/strong> stated, \u201cThe Lenape were the largest Indian village to the West of the Allegheny River.\u201d This tribe consisted of three main divisions. They are called the Unami, or \u201cPeople Down River,\u201d the Unalachtigo, or \u201cPeople Who Live Near the Ocean,\u201d and the Munsee, or \u201cPeople of the Stony Country.\u201d These tribes occupied what was called Lenapehoking, which is where the modern day Northeastern United States is. The Kithanink people established the settlement of Kittanning beside the Allegheny River somewhere around 1725. Kithanink can be translated to \u201cOn the Main River.\u201d When interviewed, Erik Zak<\/strong> stated, \u201cMy grandma is full-blooded Cherokee and I remember her teaching me some of the ritual dances when I was young.\u201d Many people in this school have a Native American heritage. There is a lot of local history, but there are many other tribes around the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hailey Mergen When most people think of Thanksgiving, they think of food. However, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}