Spanish Horses among the Plains Tribes

Worcester, Donald E.

doi:10.2307/3634681

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“…Other situations, such as herd movement south and west to rangeland higher in C 4 grasses or during events such as seasonal bison hunts, could account for the enriched value but are not consistent with strontium and oxygen isotope data. Pawnee (Chaticks si Chaticks) villages typically relied on stores of maize to subsist through the winter (41), and the practice of winter foddering horses with maize in the northern Missouri River region is documented ethnographically during the 18th and 19th centuries CE, including among the Pawnee (42,43). Regardless of whether the Kaw specimen was affiliated with ancestral Pawnee or another Central Plains nation, our results indicate the presence of horses in Indigenous cultural and economic systems of the Missouri River drainage during the first half of the 17th century CE.…”

Section: Pre-pueblo Revolt Contribution Of Horses To Indigenous Belie...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies

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et al. 2023

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The horse is central to many Indigenous cultures across the American Southwest and the Great Plains. However, when and how horses were first integrated into Indigenous lifeways remain contentious, with extant models derived largely from colonial records. We conducted an interdisciplinary study of an assemblage of historic archaeological horse remains, integrating genomic, isotopic, radiocarbon, and paleopathological evidence. Archaeological and modern North American horses show strong Iberian genetic affinities, with later influx from British sources, but no Viking proximity. Horses rapidly spread from the south into the northern Rockies and central plains by the first half of the 17th century CE, likely through Indigenous exchange networks. They were deeply integrated into Indigenous societies before the arrival of 18th-century European observers, as reflected in herd management, ceremonial practices, and culture.

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Section: Pre-pueblo Revolt Contribution Of Horses To Indigenous Belie...mentioning

confidence: 99%