Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In the US Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November while in Canada nearly one month and a half earlier (second Monday of October).
Last name origins & meanings: 1  Polish and Jewish (from Poland): from Polish sikora âtitmouseâ, âcoalmouseâ, hence a nickname for a small, dark person, or, in the case of the Jewish name, an ornamental name. 2  Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from any of the villages called Sikory.
The Siksika Nation is a First Nation in southern Alberta, Canada. The name SiksikÃ¡ comes from the Blackfoot words sik and ikÃ¡, with a connector s between the two words. The plural form of SiksikÃ¡ is SiksikÃ¡wa. The SiksikÃ¡wa are the northernmost of the NiitsÃ­tapi, all of whom speak dialects of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language. When European explorers travelled west, they most likely met the SiksikÃ¡ first and assumed all NiitsÃ­tapi of the Blackfoot Confederacy were Blackfoot, which is ...