I had heard that there were no horses in America until the Pilgrims brought them over. Apparently the primitive Indigenous population that was here had never seen a horse (or a wheel) before. So that image the Marxists push of the noble Native savage perched high atop his majestic horse as he peruses the fields of his land is a bunch of bunk. Any Native sitting on a horse is like them driving a Ford T1 or wearing a pair of sneakers or fitting a gas engine to the back of their canoe. What people believe is their “ancient Indigenous culture” is actually them already hooked on western tech.
Horses actually evolved in North America and spread to the old world. Native people in NA hunted and exploited them to extinction anywhere from 4000-8000 years ago. Far east Native Americans like Oconee and Ocmulgee nations had likely used horses as they migrated out of central America ~20,000 years ago. Their oral history included horses and people riding them. Evidence of horses had been found on east coast barrier islands in villages that are ~12,000 years old. When the Spanish brought horses back in the 1500s they quickly adopted a horse culture and it spread much faster than Europeans did. So much so that in the 1600s when some tribes were first contacted they had been riding and breeding Spanish Horses for over 100 years.
Interesting. Thanks for the information. I had heard that horses were introduced by the Pilgrims, but didn’t know they had been previously driven to extinction.
I had heard that there were no horses in America until the Pilgrims brought them over. Apparently the primitive Indigenous population that was here had never seen a horse (or a wheel) before. So that image the Marxists push of the noble Native savage perched high atop his majestic horse as he peruses the fields of his land is a bunch of bunk. Any Native sitting on a horse is like them driving a Ford T1 or wearing a pair of sneakers or fitting a gas engine to the back of their canoe. What people believe is their “ancient Indigenous culture” is actually them already hooked on western tech.
My point still stands that the resources available to a civilization can have direct affect on their evolution.
Horses actually evolved in North America and spread to the old world. Native people in NA hunted and exploited them to extinction anywhere from 4000-8000 years ago. Far east Native Americans like Oconee and Ocmulgee nations had likely used horses as they migrated out of central America ~20,000 years ago. Their oral history included horses and people riding them. Evidence of horses had been found on east coast barrier islands in villages that are ~12,000 years old. When the Spanish brought horses back in the 1500s they quickly adopted a horse culture and it spread much faster than Europeans did. So much so that in the 1600s when some tribes were first contacted they had been riding and breeding Spanish Horses for over 100 years.
Interesting. Thanks for the information. I had heard that horses were introduced by the Pilgrims, but didn’t know they had been previously driven to extinction.
They used dogs before the horses came up from mexican conquistadors from the horse theives