Which is weird since turkeys are native to the Americas, but Europeans named them after the traders from Turkey from which they indirectly obtained the bird. Meanwhile, in Turkey, the turkeys are called hindis, which means ‘Hindus’ or in other words, ‘Indians’ because at the time people of the old world commonly thought the Americas were the far side of India, and not separate. The French then called them coq d’Inde [rooster of India] which got shortened to just dinde. The Portuguese at least placed them as being from the western hemisphere if not specifically from North America and where both species of turkey originate and called them peru... closer but no cigar. The Malaysians, who acquired them from the Dutch, called them Dutch chickens. Aztecs called them huexolotl, which the Spaniards pronounced guajolote, used today.
The legend of the poor turkey girl:
https://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/ThePoorTurkeyGirl-Zuni.html
American Indian legends do not connect toward the reality of Turkey.
“piasa” (Thunderbird) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa
I see why this interests you. I’ve read nothing about this before. Thank you for the explanation of Indian tradition.
Found the Wiki article interesting because my father-in-law’s grandfather was named Tuck (mentioned in the wiki) and his grandmother was full blooded Comanche Indian. (They were from Quanah, TX)