Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.
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nishnabek said:
This is not correct … There were horses here before the european arrived … And Native people did not associate a damn horse with a dog. Many Indigenous nations here on Turtle Island bred and had their own species of horse … There is no reason to continue to believe the fraudulent HIStory that euro-“Americans” have programmed their masses with … There is plenty of Teachings out there that wholly accurate. 
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