Indian Relay, an exciting and dangerous horse race, is a source of pride for members of the Native American Horse Nations tribes.
Indian Relay, a race where riders risk collisions with thousand-pound horses, is both exhilarating and dangerous, but team manager Mason Red Wing says the connection with horses saved his life.Red Wing grew up on the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, angry at his own people. Native American communities suffer from high rates of substance abuse and Red Wing's own father succumbed to alcoholism.
In the kids' division, with riders as young as 6, children race on ponies for three laps around a much shorter course.Where did the sport come from?The roots of modern Indian Relay are in the horse-stealing raids that tribes once staged against White settlers and each other, Real Bird said. 'When it was middle of the night, they would come and take the prize horse and high-tail it back to their home country,' Real Bird said.
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