A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures
, . . Smithsonian/Fulcrum, $12.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-1-55591-112-6
This slender, informative volume gathers poems, photographs and brief contemporary essays alongside pieces from the National Museum of the American Indian to memorialize the relationship between Native Americans and their horses. In a somewhat disjointed introduction, historian Herman J. Viola observes that Native Americans had "little for which to thank Christopher Columbus except the horse" and that while "the marriage of horse and Indian" was brief (it lasted little more than a century), it was "a thing of beauty." Said marriage certainly produced beautiful artifacts: images of horses were painted onto wooden
Reviewed on: 02/27/2006
Genre: Nonfiction