How did Indians break horses, as opposed to the cowboy way?

How did Indians break horses, as opposed to the cowboy way? Paul Gordon St. Thomas, ON, Canada Indians usually did not use saddles. Some of the ways they broke horses was to run them into deep water and let ’em buck until they wore themselves out. Indians also loped the horses in deep sand, when possible, up a steep grade, until the horses were too tired to buck—that always took the starch out of them in a hurry. I’ve tried all those methods myself, and each one makes a horse lose