Les Boomhower, a Shetland pony breeder, bought an Arabian/Appaloosa ... by Welsh and Native American ponies. This was done to breed ponies with bodies like small horses, rather than ponies with ...

The appaloosa goes back to prehistoric times when spotted horses were depicted on cave ... has had an important impact on many of the native American breeds such as the Morgan, American saddlebred ...

and numerous Native American scholars, including members of the Lakota, Comanche and Pawnee nations. They used DNA evidence, radiocarbon dating and osteology to analyze roughly two dozen sets of ...