Paul Schrag by The Suppressed History of America

Author:The Suppressed History of America [America, The Suppressed History of]
Language: deu
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-03-16T14:01:59+00:00

that horses were brought to the New World by the Spanish around

1780 and that the plains Native Americans acquired them soon after

that. Yet even if the Spanish breeds had been rushed to the Pacific

Northwest as soon as they came off the Spanish galleons, the time

span from 1780 would have been insufficient to achieve the specific

genetic developments present when Lewis and Clark first saw the

horses in September 1805.

Thus it is that we must question how a native tribe in the north-

west corner of a land divided by almost insurmountable physical

boundaries could possess such a defined breed. The few schoolbooks

that actually mention the subject suggest that the Appaloosa is a mix-

ture of Asian and Spanish breeds and that the Northwest natives

obtained these Spanish breeds from the tribes of the South. However,

most books omit to mention where the Asian breeds may have come from,

leaving it to be assumed Asian horses also crossed the Bering Strait.

Further investigation leads us to believe the Appaloosa bred by

the Nez Percé were Chinese, and there was evidence at the time of the

Lewis and Clark expedition to substantiate this claim. In addition there

exists strong proof that the Pacific Northwest had contact with Chinese

civilizations by water, and not only by the trickle suggested across the

Bering land bridge. Over the years this evidence has been coyly yet ruth-

lessly covered, altered, or outright destroyed.

The Appaloosa appears in pictographs of ancient Asian and Chinese

art. The Nez Percé horses were known for their speed, endurance, and

surefootedness. The Appaloosa in particular were short legged and

stocky, with large heads and thick necks. Their spotted rumps are their

defining characteristic. In the second century BCE, Chinese emperor

Wu Ti imported Arabian horses into China to improve their mediocre

native stock. Among this new influx were the spotted horses. Evidence

of spotted horses has been common in China for the past 2000 years as

documented in surviving art.

After they had been fed and were sufficiently rested, the Corps of

Discovery were ready to resume their journey. The generous Nez Percé

76 H Voyagers of the Pacific Coast and the Kennewick Man

people gave them supplies and information about river routes to the

Pacific Ocean. The explorers left their horses in the trust of the Nez

Percé until their return.

It is interesting to note that in this beautiful valley where the

Nez Percé lived freely, there is a mound so large it looks like a hill.

According to local legend this mound is supposed to contain deep

within it the heart of a great monster killed during the beginning of

the world. There is no mention of this hill or its intriguing mythol-

ogy in any of the journals of the men from the expedition despite

very clear instructions from President Jefferson for soil samples and

the like. Did Lewis and Clark see the mound? How is it possible they

could have missed it?

Within a few days after leaving the Nez Percé, Lewis and Clark reached

the Clearwater River, a tributary of the Snake River, which led to the

Columbia. The two rivers converge in the general area near Kennewick,

Washington. On October 16, 1805, when they reached the Narrows

of the Columbia, Lewis saw the water “boiling and whirling in every

direction” over jagged rocks.

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