The Sioux or Lakota are regarded as the best Riders and bow and arrow shooters.
Both activities are very deeply rooted in their tradition. The work and the living together with horses, and the reviving of old traditional values, should help the young Natives to get back their own identity.

The aim of the organization is to bring the children and the youth back to their own culture and to protect them from alcohol and drugabuse by involving them in various programs based on their traditions. Most of the families on Pine Ridge Reservation live with alcohol, drugs and violence. For the native children and youth it is very hard to avoid getting in the same misery and to believe in a better hopefulfuture. School education and medical care are inefficient. For many years the two chairman Wendell Yellow Bull and Bam Brewer have been working with great dedication together with the Lakota Horsemanship Organisation to help the children and youth to find the right way.

 

Examples: Crazy Horse Memorial Ride, Little Big Horn Horse Ride, Labor Day Ride und Sobriety Ride. Bam Brewer is (among others) the Initiator of the Crazy Horse Memorial Ride. For many years the five-day ride is always takes place in June and a spiritual leader is always there to lead them. This ride goes from Fort Robinson ( where the legendary Lakota Chief Crazy Horse was murdered in 1877 ) to Pine Ridge.

 

More than 100 youth and adults participate. The aim of this ride is tobring back their own identity and culture and to protect then against alcohol and drugs. The Sobriety Ride is another activity for the youth, which always takes place in July. The children are purposely led with their horses through White Clay, well-knowing that White Clay is a village, wheremost wooden buildings are only there for selling cheap alcohol. The participants of the Sobriety Ride stop there in order to pray for the many drunken Indians lying in front of the wooden buildings.

 

In the past various workshops have taken place with children and youthlike regular wood crafting courses, herbal excursions with the wild lifebiologist Richard Sherman and wilderness camps for several days. In the winter months they have had different workshops for the youth making horse holsters, picture frames out of wood, visiting the agriculture exhibition in Rapid City with an overnight stay and dining plus seeing a film.