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“Looking back on their history, Apaches, Navajos, and Cheyennes remembered horses as a gift from their gods. A Cheyenne oral tradition says that when Cheyennes first saw horses, the Creator gave them a choice of whether to accept them.
"If you have horses," the Creator told them, "everything will be changed for you forever." With horses, "you will have to move around a lot to find pasture for your horses" and "you will have to have fights with other tribes, who will want your pasture land or the places you hunt."
It was a decision that would affect generations to come, so "think, before you decide?"2 The Cheyennes accepted the gift but remembered it as a choice and a turning point in Cheyenne history.”