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Wild Horses are Native to North America Despite An Outdated Eurocentric view of history
Wild Horses are Native to North America Despite An Outdated Eurocentric view of history
Indigenous Horse of the Americas
The BLM is not required to recognize wild horses as native species
The BLM is not required to recognize wild horses as native species
Colorado Experience - Native Horses (PBS) < youtube video >
Background
If the Wild Horses were recognized by the US Congress as 'native species' the management plan used by the BLM would be required to change.
Today the BLM is empowered by statute to round up wild horses and destroy healthy horses in their custody.
"Duties of the Secretary of Interior" Section 16 1333 (2) B c " The Secretary shall cause additional excess wild free-roaming horses and burros for which an adoption demand by qualified individuals does not exist to be destroyed in the most humane and cost efficient manner possible.
Visit The American Wild Horse Campaign web site
Dear Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland,
Please find a petition signed by the good people of Colorado & New Mexico imploring you to issue an immediate moratorium on all wild horse & burro round-ups. Many of the few remaining wild horses and burros on our great nations’ public lands have ancient genetics going back to the original native horses that survived the last Ice Age and supported our American Indian ancestors as a vital source of cultural and spiritual significance to Native tribes in North America.
The long history of the horse as an intricate part of American Indian culture prior to the arrival of Europeans is well documented by Dr. Yvette Running Horse Collin; Dr. Ann Forsten; Wild Life Biologist, Craig Downer; and the Museum of the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center in Canada. The ice age horses in Beringia were remarkably similar in appearance and are genetically related to today’s last truly wild horse. Western academia along with historians still argue the false claims that Native horses and horse cultures were imported from Europe. Western academia has chosen to dispel contrary accounts shared by American Indians, to ignore numerous sightings of vast herds of horses by early colonizers, and to discount the sightings and information of Native Peoples.
Carbon-14 dating of Mitochondrial DNA has been meticulously analyzed by Dr. Forsten and substantiates the origin of the modern horse in North America at 1.7 Million years ago. The significance of this fact is slowly being recognized and should result in the horse being classified as a native wildlife species in North America.
The current round up and removal of these ancient horse is nothing less than disastrous to preservation of this species. The BLM has utilized inaccurate science to support the reasoning for removal of all wild horses & burros from federals lands by declaring that they are “feral” breeds that escaped from early Spanish, pioneers and ranchers. The National Academy of Sciences has done several studies showing that this data is false.
Our new documentary film “Native Horse” (currently in the final phase of production) exposes this deception and brutal eradication of America’s wild horses & burros. We urge you and your office to take action to shift the current narrative that exists in the treatment of these vital and historic animals. Experts and activists participating in our film include: Saginaw Grant (Sauk/ Fox), Dr. Scott N. Momaday (Kiowa, Pulitzer Prize winner), Michael Horse (Yaqui/Apache/ Zuni), Tokala Black Elk (Lakota), Raoul Max Trujillo (Apache), Robert Mirabal (Grammy winner/Taos Pueblo), Adam Joaquin Gonzalez (Comanche) and others.
In addition, we include scientific interviews with Wildlife Biologist (specializing in wild horses), Craig Downer, and Dr. Yvette Running Horse Collin who completed her Doctorate thesis on deconstructing the Eurocentric myth and colonial paradigm regarding American Indian Horse Culture & History. Please issue a moratorium on all Wild Horse & Burro round-ups immediately to secure your position in support of preservation of Native Horses, Native American Culture and Spirituality.
Thank you very much for your time and support with this vitally important issue.
James Anaquad Kleinert - Director, “Native Horse”
Impact
At the present planed rate of 'gather' combined with the planned sterilization and fertility control programs in place with the BLM - Wild Horses as a species will become extinct.
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Wild Horses are native to North America.
Images below are found in petroglyphs identified as several thousand years old.
Evidence in ... " a 30,000-year DNA record of past environments, drawn from cored permafrost sediments extracted from the Klondike region of central Yukon ... builds on previous research by McMaster scientists who had determined woolly mammoths and the North American horse were likely present in the Yukon approximately 9,700 years ago.
Ross MacPhee of the American Museum of Natural History, another co-author. “The horse that lived in the Yukon 5,000 years ago is directly related to the horse species we have today, Equus caballus. Biologically, this makes the horse a native North American mammal, and it should be treated as such.”
Native American Heritage FB Article
According to the narrative written, the first horses to arrive in the "New World" in 1519 were the progenitors of every horse found on the continent in later years. That it would have been biologically impossible for a small group of horses in Mexico to populate regions thousands of miles away in as little as two years is never discussed. That’s by design.
In Spain in the late 15th and 16th centuries, horses were associated with nobility, power, and cultural refinement. If indeed there were horses here and the Native people had a relationship with them, with Europe’s standards at that time, we were civilized. And, in order for them to “conquer” and do what they wanted to do, we had to be "uncivilized". Covering up the accounts of those who bore witness to horses in the "New World" and denying that horses existed in the "New World" at all, helped to sell the myth of settler colonialism on which the conquest of the Americas was built.
Quanah Parker
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