03 May 2012
Chadron, Nebraska, USA
An Oglala Lakota horseback rider, on the Crazy Horse Ride in Nebraska, travels from Chadron to the Crazy Horse camp at Beaver Wall, to commemorate the life and death of the great Lakota war leader.
The Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota live near the site of the massacre of over 250 Lakota Sioux, at Wounded Knee Creek (1890). They recount a long history of violated treaties and broken promises on the part of successive US governments. Pine Ridge is seeing an upsurge in resistance movements, and a revival of traditional spiritual ways. The sun dance has returned, after nearly disappearing, and people are teaching language, horse skills, and ceremonies to the youth.
