Summary

To maintain regular human contact, Rick Overlooking Horse attended a rodeo his uncle participated in once a year. There in 1969 he acquired the Ugly Red Stud, his uncle’s horse. After this, he began trading Wahupta for more brood mares, keeping them in his meadow. The narrator describes the link between horses and the Lakota as sibling-like. He would trade them for small items or sometimes, like his Wahupta, give them away for nothing. The narrator goes on to describe the beginning of the American Indian Movement against the systemic oppressions of Native Americans under which societies are forming across reservations in the early 1970s.

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