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Horse - ASL / Audio Description
Transcript
Horses have impacted human culture for many thousands of years as a source of food, clothing, manure, labor, and transportation. Horses first evolved on the North American continent from a diminutive, knee-high forest creature 55 million years ago into the tall grazing species that we now recognize. The horse migrated all over the world, eventually becoming extinct in the Western Hemisphere about 10,000 years ago. The horse was first reintroduced to North America and the Western Hemisphere by the Spanish Conquistadors and later by Spanish colonists in the late 1400's CE. In the short time before Indigenous peoples of the Americas integrated horses into their culture, the horse served Spanish Conquistadors as an important means of rapid travel, exploration, and military dominance over other people not familiar with horses. By the time of the Anza Expedition, horses were thriving on the grasslands and within the cultures of many Indigenous peoples across North America. In 1775, three-hundred and twenty horses carried many of the Anza expedition colonists along the trail. Surely the horses' whinnies, nickers, sighs, and snorts along with plodding footsteps were sounds of comfort for the colonists traveling in unfamiliar lands. The horses' need for pasture and water was a constant concern for the colonists as they moved slowly through the arid environments and Indigenous lands of what was then claimed by Spain as the northern frontier of New Spain. Horses, along with other introduced livestock, impacted and transformed much of the Indigenous landscape especially near the river and at other sources of water. Horses would roam onto Indigenous fields, eating and trampling crops under their large hooves.
Description
ASL / Audio Description for Footprints exhibit at the Anza Trail Cultural History Park in Tucson, AZ (HORSE)
Duration
2 minutes, 11 seconds
Credit
AZFLIS
Date Created
01/05/2023
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