The Reintroduction of the Horse to the Canadian Prairies

The horse was native to North America, but became extinct as the first peoples arrived from Siberia 15,000 to 12,000 years ago. Reintroduced by the Spanish in the seventeenth century, horses spread rapidly, fulfilling an important role in the First Nations’ socioeconomic system. By the eighteenth ce...

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