Native American Horse Breeds

My husband and I visited the National Indian Art Museum in Washington, DC to see the exhibit "Song of the Horse Nation." I took a picture of the above information while at the exhibit. As you can see it gives a number of the most popular American Horse Breeds that are still with us: the American Quarter Horse which was a cross between the Chickasaw ponies and the English Thoroughbred.

The Appaloosa was the spotted horse of the Nez Perce Indian Tribe--excellent horse breeders. This stock was a mix of the Alkhal-Teke (A horse from Turkmenistan, in northern Iran adjacent to the former Soviet Union). The Alkhal-Teke from Turkmenistan is thought to have descended from the now extinct Turkoman horse breed.