Historicizing the Horse. The Case of Three Native American Myths
Historicizing the Horse. The Case of Three Native American Myths

Summary/Abstract: This article studies the process of historicizing the horse in Native American cultures by exploring its representation(s) in three Blackfoot myths - ”Thunder’s Gift of Horses”, ”Water Spirit’s Gift of Horses”, and ”How Morning Star Made the First Horse”. The horse was a new historical reality for the Blackfoot; embedding it in myth was a method used to internalize it in the tribe’s narrative. The analysis focuses on how historicity of the horse was conditioned by its mythicity.

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