What did native Americans call pumpkins?

Answer 1

There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:

• Abnaki, Eastern
• Achumawi
• Afro-Seminole Creole
• Ahtena
• Alabama
• Aleut
• Alsea
• Angloromani
• Apache, Jicarilla
• Apache, Kiowa
• Apache, Lipan
• Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
• Apache, Western
• Arapaho
• Arikara
• Assiniboine
• Atakapa
• Atsugewi
• Barbareño
• Biloxi
• Blackfoot
• Caddo
• Cahuilla
• Carolina Algonquian
• Carolinian
• Catawba
• Cayuga
• Chamorro
• Chehalis, Lower
• Chehalis, Upper
• Cherokee
• Chetco
• Cheyenne
• Chickasaw
• Chimariko
• Chinook
• Chinook Wawa
• Chippewa
• Chitimacha
• Choctaw
• Chumash
• Clallam
• Cocopa
• Coeur d'Alene
• Columbia-Wenatchi
• Comanche
• Coos
• Coquille
• Cowlitz
• Cree, Plains
• Crow
• Cruzeño
• Cupeño
• Dakota
• Degexit'an
• Delaware
• Delaware, Pidgin
• Esselen
• Evenki
• Eyak
• Galice
• Gros Ventre
• Gwich'in
• Halkomelem
• Han
• Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
• Hawai'i Creole English
• Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
• Hawaiian
• Hidatsa
• Ho-Chunk
• Holikachuk
• Hopi
• Hupa
• Ineseño
• Inupiaq
• Inupiatun, North Alaskan
• Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
• Iowa-Oto
• Jemez
• Jingpho
• Kalapuya
• Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
• Kansa
• Karkin
• Karok
• Kashaya
• Kato
• Kawaiisu
• Keres, Eastern
• Keres, Western
• Kickapoo
• Kiowa
• Kitsai
• Klamath-Modoc
• Koasati
• Koyukon
• Kumiai
• Kuskokwim, Upper
• Kutenai
• Lakota
• Luiseño
• Lumbee
• Lushootseed
• Mahican
• Maidu, Northeast
• Maidu, Northwest
• Maidu, Valley
• Makah
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy
• Mandan
• Mattole
• Menominee
• Meskwaki
• Miami
• Michif
• Micmac
• Mikasuki
• Miwok, Bay
• Miwok, Central Sierra
• Miwok, Coast
• Miwok, Lake
• Miwok, Northern Sierra
• Miwok, Plains
• Miwok, Southern Sierra
• Mohave
• Mohawk
• Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
• Mokilese
• Molale
• Mono
• Muskogee
• Nanticoke
• Natchez
• Navajo
• Nawathinehena
• Nez Perce
• Nisenan
• Nooksack
• Nottoway
• Obispeño
• Ofo
• Ohlone, Northern
• Ohlone, Southern
• Okanagan
• Omaha-Ponca
• Oneida
• Onondaga
• Osage
• Ottawa
• Paiute, Northern
• Pawnee
• Piro
• Piscataway
• Plains Indian Sign Language
• Pomo, Central
• Pomo, Eastern
• Pomo, Northeastern
• Pomo, Northern
• Pomo, Southeastern
• Pomo, Southern
• Potawatomi
• Powhatan
• Purepecha
• Purisimeño
• Quapaw
• Quechan
• Quileute
• Quinault
• Salinan
• Salish, Southern Puget Sound
• Salish, Straits
• Sea Island Creole English
• Seneca
• Serrano
• Shasta
• Shawnee
• Shoshoni
• Siuslaw
• Skagit
• Snohomish
• Spanish
• Spokane
• Takelma
• Tanacross
• Tanaina
• Tanana, Lower
• Tanana, Upper
• Tenino
• Tewa
• Tillamook
• Timbisha
• Tiwa, Northern
• Tiwa, Southern
• Tlingit
• Tohono O'odham
• Tolowa
• Tonkawa
• Tsimshian
• Tübatulabal
• Tunica
• Tuscarora
• Tutelo
• Tututni
• Twana
• Umatilla
• Unami
• Ute-Southern Paiute
• Ventureño
• Wailaki
• Walla Walla
• Wampanoag
• Wappo
• Wasco-Wishram
• Washo
• Wichita
• Wintu
• Wiyot
• Wyandot
• Yakima
• Yaqui
• Yokuts
• Yuchi
• Yuki
• Yurok
• Zuni

Answer 2

There are many thousands of native languages spoken in North, Central and south America - "native American" is notrestricted to the USA.

Just a few examples of native names for pumpkin or squash are:

Natick (Wampanoag, Narragansett and others)...........askutasquash

Shawnee...........................cut-op-pi-coo

Delaware (Lenape)...........machoachk

Powhatan..........................mahcawg

Mi'kmaq.............................ejkwej

Maliseet.............................sqoc or skucis

Mohegan...........................áskot

Ojibwe..............................agasimaan, ogwisimaan, bakwasimaan

Cheyenne..........................heóvêhó'oohémâhoo'o

Mohawk.............................onon'onhsera'kowa

Cherokee...........................kayásekua

Apache...............................belh-kun

Jicarilla...............................nayizhe

Navajo...............................nayizichi

Answer 3

Typically it is called a "Jack-o-lantern".