As there is no actual Ride this year due to the Covid pandemic, we thought we would add a website showing photos and items from previous Rides through the years. It will be like a Memory Ride for you the reader. We hope that you enjoy looking at each day's page.

We start this year with the original full Ride from the Lower Brule to Mankato in 2008. Many of you will recognise it because it is the one from the Movie by the Smoothfeather team.

For those of you who are fairly new to this group you will be able to see some of the things that happened in the early years.

Group Admins: Gloria, Lou, Cari, Marge, John, Tom, Rosetta, Mo, Michele, & Jenny

Gloria Hazell Derby
(2014 day 3) Time changed a couple of years ago to 4pm.
A post the other day on here got me to thinking, and I decided to start a prayer circle for each day of the Ride for us all to participate in. Due to the fact that we are living all over the globe it is more difficult to give a time that all of us can do, but because most are in America and Canada I will make it easier on you. I am asking that at at 4 pm Central. 10pm GMT, we all stop what we are doing and say a short prayer for the Riders, the horses, the supporters, Jim Miller, and all of those who are in pain, need or despair. For healing and reconciliation. You can of course add your own prayers. You don't have to do it for long, you will know when you have finished. Do your prayers in your own way, smudge if you want to or don't as the case may be. Feel comfortable as you do it that's all I ask. So from tonight, or tomorrow at whatever your time zone is please join in if you can at 4pm the Ride's time. This will go on until the end of the Ride. Thanks.
(This prayer has since been continued throughout the year.)

Alberta Jim Miller 2018
Can you, the riders, please remember the veterans in your prayers today? When we were at the VA the other day there were many there who appeared to be suffering greatly. There are many of our own who suffer from PTSD and the addictions that come as a companion to the individual. Just this morning I smudged Jim and told him that he needed to be smudged off for wherever he went during the night. He said yes, I was in Vietnam.

Prayer from Mo
Good morning relatives,
On this brisk morning let us give thanks for all of the beauty and blessings we are able to experience.
A few yesterdays ago there was so much hatred and bloodshed upon our lands that there was little beauty to be seen.
Because one brother walked a path with Creator and connected with our ancestors we have an opportunity to connect with the same and bring beauty and blessings across the land once again. Beauty not only seen through the eyes, but beauty felt from the soul.
The spirits of our ancestors being honored, being brought on a journey from pain and horror to a place of love, togetherness, forgivess, and reconciliation. A time to allow their voices to be heard, their pain and sacrifices to not be in vain. A journey that allows our hurts to heal a bit, and leave those that come after us a little less hurt.
Creator allow this beautiful journey to affect every heart upon this land. Allow us to open to the beauty within and around. Allow every stomp of the horse nations hooves to rattle the darkness within us and allow it to fall away into a place of forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation. Protect our family showing us how generational trauma affects us, how we can heal, how love wins, and how when we unite the ripple is spread across the land. Open us all to the wisdom that this journey is riding with. Embrace our family with the determination and strength that our grandmothers had. Allow them to feel the loving feminine energy embracing them like only a grandmother could. Allow us all to connect to the wisdom of the elders. Open our eyes and our hearts to the beauty of the grandmother's. Let the young ones be open to the teachings of their grandmothers. It is an honour so many of us were not given. We know, however, that when we pray and listen those grandmother's can be heard.
Love, honour, respect, and gratitude from Texas
Mitakuye Oyasin A'ho
Mo

First the History of the Ride... 1

In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. "When you have dreams, you know when they come from the creator... As any recovered alcoholic, I made believe that I didn't get it. I tried to put it out of my mind, yet it's one of those dreams that bothers you night and day."

Sisseton Riders including Billyray (left)

Elena Wilson
Prayers for all riders and accompanying parties! Toksa Ake'! From the Family of Billyray DuMarce....