Galloping Again With My Beloved Father, Mato Gi

Great to Gallop again. As the stirrups were too long for my moccasins, it was like riding bareback, but once I moved into a gallop, it was like returning to Heaven with my beloved father, Mato Gi.

Once I started galloping, I did not want to stop. Mato Gi was with me every step. And yes, I mounted, by myself, as I did, in my teens, when we rounded up, roped, flanked, cut, and branded calves, with beloved relatives, on the Sherwood Ranch, Wakpala, Standing Rock!

Phil Lane Jr. smiling on horseback at sunset, wearing a feathered headdress, red face paint, a yellow ribbon shirt and a blue beaded medallion.

Phil Lane Jr. in a feathered headdress and yellow ribbon shirt riding a dark horse toward the camera along a gravel road in the desert.

Side view of Phil Lane Jr. in a full feathered headdress and yellow shirt, holding the reins of a brown horse against a blue sky.

Phil Lane Jr. in a feathered headdress and yellow ribbon shirt seated on a roan horse beside a dirt road, with a rocky desert hill behind.