Sacred Horse Society

10/13/2023

Son got to hang out with Jackie for a minute. Awesome job you and your boys.

08/11/2023

Chief Standing Elk, Roast, Chief Spotted Tail's son. Sicangu Lakota. 1880s

08/08/2023

It was summer of 1912, the Olympics in Sweden. Jim Thorpe, a Native American from the Sac and Fox tribe, was representing the U.S. in four events, including the decathlon, which would determine the greatest athlete in the world.

The decathlon took place over three days. On the morning of day two, when Jim went to gather his track shoes for competition, they were missing.

Without a store to purchase a new pair from, he and his track coach went scouring trash bins looking for a discarded pair. His coach found a right shoe and a left one. They were different styles, different sizes. One shoe fit fine. The other was too big. But given time constraints this was his best option. So on the foot with the big shoe, Jim put on two pairs of socks.

Wearing these track shoes, Jim came in first place. And he didn't just win, he dominated, wining by a margin of about 700 points.

Jim returned home to a ticker tape parade down Broadway in NY. His name was in the papers, the pride of nation. He was the greatest athlete in the world.

04/20/2023

See you there. MMIW search and rescue development meeting. Ihanktonwan Dakota Makoce. White Swan Sundance grounds. Sacred Horse Society.

04/17/2023

Stephanie Big-Eagle: Back home. Back to the horses. Next up: MMIW Memorial Ride May 27 - June 5, 2023. Bring your horses and join us. Support the ride and the riders, and especially the horses of the Sacred Horse Society, Sunka Wakan Okodakiciiye Kin, here: https://gofund.me/1daabc9a.

04/13/2023

The popular narrative that horses were brought to the Americas by Europeans is now being questioned. New evidence suggests that horses were in the Americas independent of European contact. Some native nations have contended that horses have been around since time immemorial, but unfortunately oral traditions and traditional knowledge frequently aren’t regarded as legitimate until Western science validates these claims.

It now looks like archeology is catching up with what some Native nations have always known,
providing yet another example of howIndigenous knowledge and Native ways of knowing must be given equal consideration with
Knowledge from a Western scientific paradigm.

While this new evidence doesn’t confirm that horses have been in the Americas since time immemorial, it does demonstrate that the adoption of the horse is independent of European colonization.

“Native accounts contradicted the timeline centered on the Pueblo Revolt, suggesting some tribes had acquired horses much earlier, but “oral tradition was discounted,” says Comanche historian Jimmy Arterberry, a co-author of the Science study. “The end result has been to discredit the antiquity of the relationship between Native people and horses,” adds University of Colorado, Boulder, archaeologist William Taylor, also a co-author.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/horse-nations-animal-began-transforming-native-american-life-startlingly-early



📸: ©️Greg Child

04/06/2023

Missing!

04/06/2023

"Horses first emerged on the continent of North America. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the natural companion of many Indigenous peoples and the flagship symbol of the southwest. An international team uniting 87 scientists across 66 institutions around the world, including Associate Professor of Anthropology Emily Lena Jones at The University of New Mexico, now begins to refine the history of the American horse."

Horses first emerged on the continent of North America. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the natural companion of many Indigenous peoples and the flagship symbol of the southwest. An international team...

04/06/2023

Working with my friends and world champion dancers,awesome and always will remember the good times aho, toksha ake.