The Guardian
by Ewen McAskill
May 1, 2013

Horses are sacred to Native Americans. For Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, one of the tribal leaders of the Oglala Sioux, there are few places in America as inappropriate as the Pine Ridge reservation for a horse slaughterhouse.

"Horses are our friends," said Steele, who has been on the tribal council for 20 years. "A lot of people here think killing horses is wrong." He said his view was widely shared on the South Dakota reservation, one of the biggest in America.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may...th-dakota-tribe

Indian s always killed and ate horses, in every historical book I ever read.

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Indian s always killed and ate horses, in every historical book I ever read.

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Indian s always killed and ate horses, in every historical book I ever read.

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They killed and ate bison, too. But the bison were also part of their spiritual worldview.

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When it comes to the Lakota, question their "spiritual worldview". The Black Hills are central to their spiritual world view, too, the center of their cosmos, stolen by the White men, etc. EXCEPT, the Lakota didn't arrive in the Black Hills until around 1775 - when they drove another tribe living their out [the Kiowas ?]. Most Indians, in a pinch, ate horses. Hell, the Apaches would steal 'em, run 'em into the ground, eat 'em [although they preferred mule meat], use their intestines [cleaned] for a canteen, and steal another one [they lived in the Black Hills for awhile, too. Kind of like an Indian Motel 6]. The only two tribes I know of who cared for their horses to such a degree that they bred them were the Comanches and Nez Perce.

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