USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Indigenous peoples in the Canadian Prairies (parts of modern-day Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) used the travois to carry their belongings between camping sites and hunting sites.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alongside continuing canoe traffic, timber small craft, both flat-bottomed and keeled, were employed on Plains rivers by fur traders, travelers, and explorers. These were sturdier than canoes, but the flat-bottomed boats were only effective going downstream, while keelboats were often grounded.

Detailed explanation-3: -When the first humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge about 20, 000 years BC, they would have found the Great Plains already a haven for herds of horses. As the climate changed, the horse followed other large mammals into extinction. For many thousands of years the plains and its people were without the horse.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although horses began to infiltrate the Plains soon after the Spanish settled New Mexico in 1598, widespread diffusion began only after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Spanish brought horses with them in the 1500s to their settlements in the Southwest, and they eventually spread to Indian tribes in the Great Plains. Most tribes incorporated horses into their economy and culture, while many used the horse to totally transform their lifestyle.