Native American Horses
The Native Americans were not known to ride horses until the Spanish settlers
arrived and taught them how to tame horses and use them for transportation.
The Spanish brought the horse back into the United states during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries and before this the horse was thought to have existed
here during prehistoric times, and they also became extinct with the prehistoric
dinosaurs.
Native American horses became very popular for transportation when
they did come back due to the Spanish settlers. The first tribes that used
Native American horses were the tribes that spread through what is now New
Mexico into Texas and quickly became very popular among the Native indigenous
people. Before long Native American horses spread throughout many of the Plains
Indian tribes in the Midwest and south. The use of the horse made the lives
of the Native Americans much easier and their daily tasks of hunting the buffalo
and other wildlife became a much simpler task so they could provide for their
tribes.
Once the horse was brought back into the area they began to breed and thrive
once again throughout the lands and many more would soon arrive as European
settlers began to arrive on the Native American lands. There are not many
wild horses left since many nowadays are raised on farms and quite domesticated
in comparison to the wild horses of the past. Native American horses were
essential to the Indian tribes and they began to rely heavily on them for
their travels during times of war and moving their tribal lands, as well as
for hunting as previously stated.
The Native American horses also greatly
helped the Native Americans travel in order to trade many of their crafts
and obtain many other goods to help their tribes and their families. The impact
of the hors on native life was enormous and many Indian names also began to
incorporate the word horse into them, one of the most famous being Crazy Horse.
The horse was the second animal to be domesticated by the Native people; the
first was the dog, which was used by the Native Americans in help with hunting.
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