[fish hawk]

My "public school, right?" may be taken as an insult or not. Public schools teach a lot of things that have been theory for a hundred years or more without any proof. Even if the Indians killed horses for food is no reason to state the the Indians killed off the horses. It was pretty easy to discover the earth travels around the sun but to state things that can not be known is often ridiculous. I went to public schools and I know a lot of things now that is not what those teachers were telling me back then.

A few years ago it was taught that the third whale with a mother and baby Humpback was a "nanny" female whale. It turns out they are males. Also , the Humpbacks are "gentle giants". Now they know that they fight like hell over the females at mating season, often bloodying the waters. And on top of that, are they not still teaching that man evolved from a monkey?

[L98Fiero]

"Even if the Indians killed horses for food is no reason to state the the Indians killed off the horses."

They contributed to the horses demise by overhunting. That's not an uncommon theory that is heavily supported by facts. That's pretty solid green light to state it, IMO.

[SunkenCiv]

Even if the Indians killed horses for food is no reason to state the the Indians killed off the horses. It was pretty easy to discover the earth travels around the sun but to state things that can not be known is often ridiculous.

I wholeheartedly agree. There is no evidence that the horse was killed off by the tribes; there is also not one iota of evidence that the horse was reintroduced to the tribes by the Spanish.

Obviously the Spanish brought horses over, and obviously they used horses, but claiming that the descendants of the same tribes who supposedly hunted the horse to extinction, and had never ridden a horse, suddenly found the undocumented aliens -- undocumented because Coronado never mentions losing any horses, and certainly would have mentioned it had it been enough to provide a breeding population -- and decided to "break" them and ride them, is ridiculous on its face.