Electric spurs are the latest scandal in the horse industry. And here is the rationale for patenting the devices according to application filed with the US Patent Office: “In the training of horses and in the competitive riding of horses, such as in rodeos, for example, it frequently is necessary to force a horse to […]
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post pointing out that we could all learn a great deal about those who brought their horses to the American Southwest by looking at the DNA of horses running on the Indian reservations in the Southwest. (click here) The Navajo Reservation covers about 25,351 square miles of […]
When the corona virus first hit, my reaction was that it was going to provoke tremendous social change. Diseases spread when populations are treated as disposable production units not living beings. I was sure that the pandemic was going to expose long-standing inhumane working and living conditions. But it took radical widespread protests for the […]
It is unfortunate that speaking out on racism makes me a target for all factions of racism. There are people of color, including my half-brother, who insist that I am an outsider who cannot possibly understand their experiences. So I have thought long and hard about posting any of my own experiences. There is nearly […]
Singh and Brown have been using the the India Palace restaurant in Santa Fe for the last five weeks as a place to prepare food and care packages for homeless people in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The vandal or vandals destroyed these supplies, leaving packaged goods strewn across the restaurant’s dining room. The […]
To protect those I mention in this post I am purposefully vague about dates, places and people. Never the less, this is a true report of one of my first-hand experiences with the (UN)Civil Guard and those like them. It began nearly twenty years ago when I met a woman whose son had gotten caught […]
This entry to the Wild Equus Atlas was provided by Javier Solis Méndez, Lucy Rees, Johanna Marlès, Juan Bermeo, of the Equus Barehoof organization of Ecuador. This entry was submitted in Spanish, and the WEN have freely translated the text into English. Javier Solis has also contributed a wonderful article on the horses of Cotopaxi. […] […]
The Choctaw Princess lay down and died mid-morning on the fourth of June. She had appeared stable and in good shape this spring. The only thing that was really off was that she had been eating plants this spring that she had not touched before. I had wondered why she was eating the mullein down […]
I suppose that one reason I fell into the detailed Great Horse Dispersal post is that I am considering what to do next with the Choctaw Princess. A healthy alert and lovely Choctaw Princess is a wonderful way to start and end my day. I count myself lucky to be able to keep my horse […]
I have been reading ‘The Empire of the Summer Moon’ chronicling the clash between the Calvinist Anglo settlers that began moving into Texas after the Louisiana Purchase and the Comanche who ruthlessly protected their territory from settlers. Gywnne’s book includes 34 pages of footnotes and sources so it is a well-documented report of the times. […]
