Wild Horses in Santo Domingo Pueblo
Kirsten Nieto
Santo Domingo Pueblo
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Community “sharing One Skin” by Jeanettte Armstrong
This talks about Native Identity and how important it is and how we each have roles as natives. We used that to identify ourselves as separate from other things. This is mostly about the identity of a person that is Okanagan and how their role is and where they take their identity from and learn their responsibility. Since they know what they are part of they cannot be separated from their place and land. The word okanagan comes from a while understanding of what they are as human beings. Their people use that word to identify themselves. The okanagan people speak for themselves as individual being within their bodies and a whole person as having four main capacities that operate together.
Armstrong, Jeanette. "Community Sharing One Skin". Director En'owkin Centre. Page 35-39
“Native American Identity” By Horse Perry G.
With the Perry G. Horse and grandmother they have a conversation on “Native American Identity” the grandmother mentions that “Someday we’re all going to be like white people.” the grandmother started to comment on how they had a change of diet from traditional foods to prepackaged goods. With American culture becoming more dominant, Natives have been marrying with whites and into tribes. Since time keeps passing we are more like them since we emulate their ways,speak and write their language, and have been educated in their schooling systems. Though we are similar with them we are still Native people and have are own ways and culture. “We cling to that distinction consciously and unconsciously.”
Horse, Perry. G. "Native American Identity". New Direction For Student Service. Wiley Periodical Inc. 2005. Print. pp. 61-68
New Mexico: Wild Horses At A Glance
In New Mexico we have several federally protected wild horse populations left in the state. With that wild horses live on less than one percent of federal Land in New Mexico. Each federal protection only allows a certain amount of horse to graze on acres of land. This article tells a lot about which federal groups protect wild horses and lands. Each federal group has horses in acres of public land. With that there are small herds of wild horses on public, private, and tribal land in New Mexico.
“New Mexico:Wild Horses At A Glance”. American Wild Horses Campaign. 2020. Web. https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/new-mexico-wild-horses-glance.
Wild Mustangs of New Mexico by Neala Shwatzberg
With this article experts estimate that horses weren’t local and that they migrated across land bridges to Asia, Europe. Africa, and going back to North America and this possibly took place about 3.4 to 3.9 millions years ago. With that going on experts have asserted that those horses have gone extinct and that the Spaniards reintroduced them to New Mexico. Though Spaniard weren't the only ones, the French and English explorers brought some of their own animals.
SchwartzBerg, Neala. “ Wild Mustangs of New Mexico”. Subrion CMS. East Mountain Directory. 2021. Web. https://www.eastmountaindirectory.com/publishing/Equestrian/31-Wild-Mustangs-of-New-Mexico.html.
Horses in Pueblo History and Culture with Mr. Christoper Chavez by Cu Museum and christoper chavez
Christoper Chavez is from Santo Domingo Pueblo and with that he talks about how Pueblo horses were never mentions in archeological research and so on he says how the plain indian and cammaches and also the navajo used there horses for warfare but no the southwest pueblos especially Santo Domingo. So he talks about the stories on how when the animal with six legs and huge shiny head came upon the Pueblo people of the southwest. The anima was breathing smoke and fire along with thunder and strange noise, the pueblo were stuck in terrible thoughts and fears for their lives. The people began to question if they should as for its good nature. As the animal became a lesser degree of scary. The people realized it only had four legs and a big metal shield on its head. The pueblo began to realize it was a gentle creature much like a dog that needed affection and care.
Chavez, Christopher. “ Horses in Pueblo History And Culture with Mr. Christopher Chavez”. CU Museum. Oct, 7 2021. Web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDvkpeXI8Wo
”The Breathtaking Place In New Mexico Where You Can Watch Wild Horses Roam” By Robin Mclure
With wild horses still roaming around the parts of the U.S. but in New Mexico it has its own special place with wild horses roaming the area that passersby can see. You can see the wild herds that reside amongst the Sandia Mountain and countryside. Since there are a few wild herds around the area, New Mexicans say that “ Sanctuaries are being created to help keep the wild horse safe” In New Mexico you can see some wild herds throughout Jemez,Sandia, and other pueblos. With passersby that pass the area they can often see horses in their natural habitat though some people view wild horses as a nuisance. Since wild horses are getting on roadways and some are falling ill due to drought and other conditions, horse sanctuaries are trying their best to protect many of these wild horses. Horse advocates try to support wild horses by trying to maintain their wild lifestyle, but they also provide service by giving them water and other things. Though some herds are now protected in preserves, others still roam the beautiful landscapes in New Mexico.
McClure, Robin. “The Breathtaking Place In New Mexico Where You Can Watch Wild Horses Roam”. Leaf Group Lifestyle. 2021. Web. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-mexico/most-affordable-city-2021-nm/
“Wild horses of Placita” by Leah Cantor
Wild horses have always been a beautiful feature of the landscape around the Pueblos and the Historic town of Placitas, that is northeast of Albuquerque. Horses around the area in Placita inspire both passion and controversy among the residents surrounding the communities. With their presence alone it is a long-standing debate between wild horse advocates, land owners, conversationalists, tribes and government agencies. With the debates on wild horses one of the main questions is “How wild is wild?” This had led many communities to spectate the round-ups and lawsuits aplenty because of this it has questions on current efforts to relocate a band of 75 horses from a 400- acre sanctuary on San Felipe Pueblo Land.
Cantor, Leah. “Wild Horses of Placitas”.Santa Fe Reporter. 2021. Web. https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2019/03/20/wild-horses-of-placitas/
“ Womens aims to protect New Mexico’s Wild horses” by Micheal Tashji The Taos News
A woman named Judy Barnes, a horse lover and amateut photographer studies wild horses and looks out for them. As Wild horses live on Wild horse Mesa still run free because of Judy Barnes who had made it her mission to protect them and make sure they don’t die out in New Mexico’s drought. Judy Barnes, who says “ they need a pond up here- to keep them off the highway” has started having a water truck fill a pond so horses and other wildlife could survive. In 2007 Barnes started a nonprofit organization called “ Spirit of the Wild Horses” to preserve and protect the horses. Though others think her plan isn’t a good one. Barnes has been studying the DNA of wild horses, seeing that some have a high percentage of Spanish blood.
Tashji, Micheal. “ Women aim to Protect New Mexico’s wild horses”. BLOX Content Management System. The Santa Fe New Mexican. 2021. Web. https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/woman-aims-to-protect-new-mexicos-wild-horses/article_f4de15c6-0ce7-11ec-a38e-8fea99538f2a.html
Wright, Andy.¨Half wild: Iceland's incredible horses¨
As these Icelandic horses roam half tame and wild in the highland for months these horses will most likely mate and others have their offspring. As the population of these horses increase they will live off the resources there to survive as they have no human contact for months. Since they are bred to live off of human touch for months they have a more compact build and certain features so that their owner can tell the difference by sight. With their more compact build they have their own characteristics that is the pace and tÁ¶lt that is known for their speed. As the Icelandic people want to protect these characteristics so they protect them by making importing forbidden and if the horses leave the island they can not come back. As they are only known to be in the highlands that roam and populate, the people of Iceland cover the issue of them overpopulating by culling them. If they don´t do that they will overpopulate and exhaust the resources of the land and starve.
Wright, Andy.¨Half wild: Icelands incredible horses¨.https://modernfarmer.com/2014/06/photo-well/.Modern Farmer. 2022.web.
Baker, Harry. ¨Australia plans to cull over 10,000 horses but scientists say it´s not enough¨.
With Australia having this problem of invasive horses that are both feral and wild it is very similar to the issue we have at Santo Domingo. In Australia though these horses are not native as they were introduced by the europeans. As time passed to the present these wild horses have become invasive as they have overpopulated and now there are about more than 25,000 wild horses. Since these horses have become invasive they have been exhausting the resources in the area. We also have this problem but they are not invasive but they have a problem of exhausting the land's resources and starvation.
Baker, Harry. ¨Australia plans to cull over 10,000 horses but scientist say it´s not enough¨. https://www.livescience.com/australia-culling-ten-thousand-horses. LIve Science. Web.
BLM National. ¨Wild Horses and Burros: From wild to mild¨.
The Bureau of Land management protects these horses so that they can have more generations of wild horses to roam. Though there is on overpopulation problem with these horses as they fight for water and food. The blm took charge as they gave food and water to these horses while also giving them veterinary care. As they do that they end up herding them and take them so that they can be introduced to adoption. Even though they try to maintain this problem the governor of Santo Domingo also came up with something similar to help maintain the population. So they announced that if you catch them you can keep them and because of that my father was able to take in two horses as we now have three.
BLM National. ¨Wild Horses and Burros: From wild to mild¨. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4nl4HKSZt4&t=36s. Web. accessed March 8, 2022
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