The wild horses of the Chilcotin : their history and future

Summary: The Chilcotin's wild horses are are romantic and beautiful, but they are also controversial: they are seen by government policy as intruders competing for range land with native species and domestic cattle and, as a result, they have been subject to culls and are not officially protected. In this compelling book, wildlife biologist Wayne McCrory draws upon two decades of research to make a case for considering these wonderful creatures, called qiyus in traditional T]ilhqot'in culture, a resilient part of the area's balanced prey-predator ecosystem. McCrory also chronicles the Chilcotin wild horses' genetic history and significance to the T]ilhqot'in, juxtaposing their efforts to protect qiyus against movements to cull them.

Record details

ISBN: 9781990776366
Physical Description: 332 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
regular print
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Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The stone horse -- The Brittany Triangle: a wilderness under seige -- The charge of the black stallion band -- Thundering wild hooves on a moonlit night -- Ghost horses of winter -- 1988: The last (?) Chilcotin wild-horse bounty hunt -- Brittany Plateau: unique wild-horse ecosystem -- Canada's first wild-horse preserve -- The Xeni Gwet'in defend their homeland -- The wild-horse preserve burns -- The ancient relationship between wolves and wild horses -- Mountain lions, bears and wild horses -- Wild horses and starvation winters -- The buffalo bird that hitchhiked in with the horse -- Wild-horse communication -- The Chilcotin killing fields: 1860s-1988 -- The mustangers -- No room for wild horses -- Bloodlines: unravelling the origins of the Chilcotin wild horse -- Horse dreams and prophecies -- The first sixteen horses of conquest -- Shared Tsilhqot'in oral history on acquisition of the horse -- Explorers record Indigenous spread of the horse -- Ancient breeds form Chilcotin wild horse population -- Chilcotin horses' unique ancestry -- The East Russian (Yakut) horse connection -- The Canadian horse: (Le Cheval Canadien) -- The spread of the Spanish horse across America -- Lost Spanish conquistador expeditions to the BC Interior and Chilcotin -- Indigenous relationships to the late Pleistocene horse -- Horse evolution: in search of old bones -- Beringia: experiencing the birthplace of the Yukon horse -- Canada's last wild horses -- Recalibrating Canada's last wild horses.