Plains folk: Indians and Horses
There is no doubt that the Plains Indians were masters of horsemanship. Consider the Cheyenne, who were forced onto the plains in the later eighteenth century by traditional enemies who had acquired guns. The Cheyenne adapted quickly to the equine lifestyle of the plains, immediately giving up farming and becoming nomadic hunters, a change that flew in the face of anthropological theory that assumed a steady progression from hunter-gathering to farming to becoming civilized.
