Their smooth walking gait made them attractive for trade and theft. However, when Colonial Pioneers crossed the Appalachian Mountains on their way into Kentucky and Tennessee in the 17 th century, they encountered Shawnee, Cherokee, and Chickasaw Tribes that had an exceptional breed of horses. On the other hand, none of the Coastal Tribes in the Northeast that were known to French, English, and Dutch explorers in the 16 th century raised horses or cattle. When Jacques Cartier explored the region of Quebec in 1535, his Native host informed him that there was a tribe in the Far West where the Indians rode on horses. The Natives presumably kept their livestock “out of sight” due to quite reasonable fears that alien visitors who landed along their shores might take cattle for a festive evening meal. When John Cabot landed along the East Coast in 1497, he reported seeing “the dung of draft animals” (such as horses and cattle). He was rescued by a party of Celtic Natives, or Welsh Colonists, “riding on horseback.”Įverywhere that explorers traveled along the Eastern Seaboard of North America during the 16 th, 17 th, and 18 th centuries, they reported seeing Indians (or Welsh settlers) riding horses. According to Bjorn of Iceland, he fell overboard while landing his dory in the Atlantic surf. If we jump over to the East Coast, we find a similar account dating to the 13 th century. According to the monk, the Native People of Fu Sang (or ancient Mexico) had both horses and wagons. He sailed to the West Coast of Fu Sang during the 5 th century AD.

Indeed, the oldest surviving travel account of an overseas explorer in the American Southwest comes from the Afghani Buddhist Monk, Hui Shen. “On the contrary,” say elders of the Plains Indian Tribes, “ our ancestors ALWAYS had horses.”

According to most leading scholars in history, anthropology and geography, none of the Native Tribes had horses until after Columbus.

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