FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS BEFORE EUROPEANS
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excellent riders
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poor riders
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poor horsemanship
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cruel to their animals
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Apache Tribe is famous for fighting for its land and its fierce warriors. They held off the Spanish, Mexican, and expanding Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lipan were among the first of the Plains Indians to obtain horses. This permitted them to dominate the southern plains and the southern bison range. They were bison hunters and had become minimal agriculturist.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cuelgas de Castro, a Lipan Apache chief in Texas during the first half of the nineteenth century, was probably born in the 1790s; he was a leading Apache chief at the time Mexico won independence from Spain (1821).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Short-Lived ‘Horse Nation’ At its height, the “Horse Nation” of the Plains Indians included the militant Comanche, who were “probably the finest horse Indians of the Plains, ” says Viola, in addition to the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota (Sioux), Crow, Gros Vent Nez Perce and more.