Horses made Plains Indians highly mobile. They changed the ways in which the Native Americans hunted bison. They became a measure of wealth. Mustangs impacted the Great Plains in other ways.

All of the Plains Indians, once they got the horse from the Spanish, buffalo hunting became easier for them. It was their way of life. The buffalo hunting began as a simple market exercise.

For a time, their mastery of the horse helped the Plains Indians hold off American settlers’ westward expansion, but even the best riders the world has ever seen could not challenge the massive ...

A collaboration between Western scientists and Native Americans finds that Indigenous groups rapidly incorporated horses of Spanish ancestry into Great Plains cultures by the early 1600s.

Indian Relay horse race dubbed “America's original extreme sport” | 60 Minutes 13:21. Indian Relay, a race where riders risk collisions with thousand-pound horses, is both exhilarating and ...

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 ...

Rodeo has provided a stage for Native Americans, many of whom had nomadic lifestyles before the U.S. established reservations, to hone their skills and deepen their relationship with horses.