History With Hilbert

How Did The Native Americans Get Horses? (2020x18)

Air date: Apr 14, 2020

Get MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/historywithhilbert & get an exclusive offer extended to our viewers: an extra month FREE. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 2,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history It would be hard to imagine the most famous Native American tribes, the Sioux or Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche and famous battles like Little Bighorn and the Adobe Walls without the spirited mustang horses they rode. In terms of how long people have inhabited the Americas however, horses are a very recent addition to their cultures, only being introduced by the Spanish expeditions into North America in the 17th Century. With the Great Pueblo Revolt of 1680 whole herds escaped onto the Great Plains and the secret weapon of the Spaniards had been exposed to the Native tribes that lived in its vicinity. Even before this the Apache, Geronimo's ancestors, had been raiding the Pueblo settlements under Spanish protection and had acquired horses for themselves, becoming the first mounted tribe in America's history. Soon more would follow. Most famous of these were the Comanche, Quannah Parker's ancestors, who by all accounts were the most skilled riders as documented by the accounts of the artist George Catlin. By the 18th Century horses had been traded and raided right the way into the northern reaches of the Great Plains in what's now Canada among the Blackfeet Nations who referred to them as "big dogs" and later "elk dogs" as they'd never before encountered such creatures until their Shoshone enemies used them in battle against them. Further Reading: Empire of the Summer Moon - S. C. Gwynne (This is the book I'm reading at the moment and is a great introduction ot the history of the Comanche tribe of the Southern Plains. An account is also given of how the Apaches first obtained and learned to use horses and then how the C