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Spirit

Stallion of the Cimarron
DonnaMeness
Nov 27, 2016
My child & I loved this story & we still love it & she is in university. She had one birthday cake decorated with Spirit & Rain & still have the ponies in with the farm animals. The art work is wondrous. The Bryan Adams soundtrack is outstanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYhnQ9XgCA “The relationship with the horse changed with the boarding schools,” Brave Heart said. “The cowboys were “breaking” horses, and it became a time when we were being broken ourselves. Now we see the honoring Memorial Rides, the Dakota 38 plus two, Wounded Knee, and you can see that people are bringing the horse back to the homelands.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/09/16/horse-nation-documentary-explores-lakota-culture-horse-relatives-156863 With the close of the Civil War, the completion of the transcontinental railway, the discovery of gold mines in Montana and Colorado and the start of ranching in the West, conflicts grew with Native Americans. The Tribes saw the wildlife they depended on for their existence being decimated by miners and settlers. The railway made it possible to transport buffalo hides to markets in the East and Europe where there was great demand and the merciless slaughter of the herds, which must have numbered over 60 million, began in earnest. The Comanche were successful in holding up the settlement of Texas for 40 years or more because of their outstanding skill as cavalrymen and their ability to live off the land thanks to the buffalo. Generals like Sheridan realized that the easiest way to reduce the Indians was to wipe out their commissary by killing the buffalo and they cheered on the slaughter. This tactic was effective and the Plains Indians were almost completely subdued shortly after their last celebrated victory over Custer in 1876. more info: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-commanche.html