Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously t

[Bayard]

1. I've always heard the Spanish story

This is very exciting!

It stands these kinds of assumptions on their head:
"The horses seen in the American West today are descended from a domesticated breed introduced from Europe, and are therefore a non-native species and not indigenous."

And ranchers can no longer claim mustangs are an invasive species infringing on their cattle grazing of public lands, and should be eliminated.