Meet some of the people trying to revitalize an endangered horse breed that roamed Canada long before European contact.
Called the Lac La Croix Indian Pony or Ojibwe horse, the small North American breed is said to have lived mainly in the boreal forests around the Great Lakes before European contact, though some evidence suggests they may have lived across the continent.Darcy Whitecrow remembers when, about 50 years ago, small horses lived alongside his community of Seine River First Nation, in northwestern Ontario.
But Whitecrow also remembers when these little horses disappeared. He was about five or six years old then — and no one in Seine River thought the horses would ever return. They were traditional helpers and assisted the Anishinaabe with checking trap lines, moving goods and transportation. According to the Ojibwe Horse Society, a volunteer organization that promotes and protects the endangered breed, by 1977 only four mares remained in the Lac La Croix First Nation area, in northwestern Ontario near the U.S. border to Minnesota.
DNA testing shows that the Ojibwe spirit horses are a separate breed from the horses introduced to North America by Europeans, according to the Ojibwe Horse Society. At first, they travelled from ranch to ranch to run the program. Later, they decided to open their own, called Grey Raven Ranch, and hold the program there using Campbell's horses.Trina Mather-Simard, director of the event company Indigenous Experiences, says the rare breed of horses used to run wild across the region and now represents an opportunity to share Indigenous culture.
"I let the horse be the teacher … He mirrors everything that you're feeling. Your nervousness, your fear, your happiness, your joy, your excitement," Whitecrow said.
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