Transportation in New Mexico

Transportation in New Mexico  

Transportation was a very important thing in New Mexico especially when the Spanish introduced horses to the Indians. When Coronado and De Soto came to America in 1540 they brought with them horses. Native Americans learned everything they needed to know about horses by working for the Spanish and working the ranches. For some time it was illegal for Native Americans to own a gun or horses. In 1680 when the pueblo Indians revolted the horses were left with the Indians, but they didn't know what to call them so they named them sacred dogs, because they looked like bigger and stronger dogs. The pueblo Indians sold and traded these "sacred dogs" with other Indians and by the time the Spanish came back many Indians had already learned to use these 'sacred dogs". Before the horse, Indians would use dogs that would carry travois, (a mode of transportation) when the horses were used by Indians, they replaced the dogs with horses and made them carry the travois. Horses were a very big improvement of transportation in America and made things easier for Native Americans.