![]() Many live a hundred miles from the nearest post office. And even after 4 years it is frustratingly difficult to get product here. I sell each item for exactly what I pay the artists. And this is why I have worked for years to provide a channel for artists on the reservation to work, honoring horses and providing pieces of tack or art we can sell for them. I look at it as an opportunity to help a desperate soul find safety. She packed her kids on a greyhound bus and left the reservation with those funds. She said she had no money so I stepped out on faith and sent her $1,500.00 to produce some brow bands. I thought I finally had a reliable artist. Many failed attempts, some of which I am grateful for. It has taken four years for me to secure reliable artists who can find their way up out of the oppression. The suicide rate is the highest on our continent. We donated thousands of books and computers to the reservation. Seeing their trials in abject poverty I began quietly working towards finding a way to honor their love of horses and their humanity. ![]() ![]() Through him I began to work with the Lakota Horsemen on Pine Ridge in South Dakota. He knew there were better ways to heal bodies, minds and souls. Living off the land, the way his mother had taught him. He had many a man, woman and child die under his knife. American Indian Horse Tack Lakota Project The Back Story.įive years ago I met a gentleman who, while raised Comanche, found himself entrenched in western medicine as a surgeon.
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