Dakota
38 + 2 Memorial Ride 2021
Day 2 - December 11th
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Prayer for Today Prayers and smoke up for the days journey ahead. Creator, we send thanks of gratitude for Jim's vision and all who are supporting this. This is for us all... for our ancestors, the women, men, children and the horse nation. Those that never got to heal, those present and afar that need the healing, and for those to come. Let us remember and honor those that have gone before us. Let us listen to the messages they are sending and allow our actions to be of love, forgiveness, and a path to healing. Please allow this day to bring us all together as one so that we can begin to heal more deeply. Remove our bitterness, our sadness, and all that blocks us from living free in heart. Allow each step of the horse nation to remind us why we are here and share the goodness in us all. Allow us to hear the prayers, the messages, and to feel the love from others and for all. We thank you
for the volunteers, the support staff, the warm accommodations,
and all of the meals for our riders and our horses. Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho Mo You may recognize the places the Ride is going through the next couple of days. These are the places on the 'Dakota 38' movie. If you haven't seen the film or don't know the story, back on the 2008 Ride, the weather was really bad, snow, snow and more snow and then a Blizzard. The Riders were out in it all. Contact was lost and we didn't know where they were. We were afraid that they had got stuck in the snow. A number of us were calling the police in different areas alerting them to the Riders, and asking if they knew anything... They didn't! We were so afraid for them. Back then no one had the means to call or text as they do now from anywhere. The technology wasn't there in the places that they were riding through. We didn't have this Face Book group either! We just had to pray, and hope that they had found shelter somewhere. THEY HAD! The place they were riding through, had taken them into a very large barn, and looked after the Horses and the Riders. They hosted them until the weather became better and they were able to continue. They were some wonderful people out there that year, they basically saved the Rider's and the horses lives by taking them in. The Ride has continued to go through this area every year since then, and one year some of the riders went out to assist the towns when a tornado had gone through and caused havoc. 'Pay it back' as they say now days. We are all so grateful for those caring people out there. If you haven't yet managed to watch the movie, it is HERE on YouTube. This movie is always free, you can get your copy by contacting Smoothfeather The Ride will be going 30 miles today, from the Fort Thompson Rodeo Coral to Wessington Springs. A total of 41 miles (this total will be on each day's page.). |
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Some photos
More will arrive in the next couple of days.
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The Riders
will be staying at the Wessington Springs 4H Building tonight.
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From
Allen Sheppard
I love you all and all of you continue to give strength in a good way.
Ignore the negative, Uphold the positive continue to refuse to even
comment on negativity, we are for healing forgiveness and unity of the
six colors, four directions and colors of man ,green the earth, and
blue ,that which is above all. Every human of every society and faith
holds a piece of the puzzle and one day we will all need to come together
to see the true and good picture. - kodapi .~mn renegade
Mitakuye Owasin
