Community Stories
Wood Mountain

Some of us worked as cowboys. In the Lakota language, the word for cowboy is na unkcte. We broke horses, rounded up cattle, branded, built fences, cut hay, harvested and fed cattle in the winter. Some of us made saddles, hackamores and bridles to sell to local ranchers.

Wasu Mato (William Lethbridge), saddlemaker, 1946 Photograph by Kathleen Lethbridge Wood Mountain Historical Society	Freddie Lecaine with a team of horses, c. 1945

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