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By JEFFREY PRATHER
"As essential as water - a handbook for the human race."
-Dr. Joseph Eleid, M.D.
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By JEFFREY PRATHER
"As essential as water - a handbook for the human race."
-Dr. Joseph Eleid, M.D.
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
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Horsemanship
How to train a horse
Major Prather learned Apache horsemanship from legendary Apache medicine singer Phillip Cassadore in 1984.
Dr. Prather is the author of Initiation - My Journey with an Apache Medicine Man, was a Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association national finalist, has trained Pentagon personnel in mounted operations, and acted and ridden in western films.
There is no bit, no bridle and no saddle, so the separation between horse and rider is minimized, the connection maximized. No mechanical contrivances force behavior and compensate for poor riding. Communication is in horse, offering the initiative on his terms, within his nature. The result is an almost unbelievably subtle connectivity of horse with rider.
The first documented native rider in the new world was in 1623, when a Spanish journal noted a mounted Apache war chief.
Nde (Apache) warriors stole trained Spanish war horses creating the first original, indigenous horsemanship tradition on the continent. Nde horsemanship is the epitome of simplicity and versatility.
Nde warriorship was chivalry. Chivalry originally meant war horsemanship. To become a warrior Nde youth had to catch, tame, lead and ride the horses on raids in enemy territory. Nde were the only native to moccasin their mounts hooves.
Dr. Prather is the author of Initiation - My Journey with an Apache Medicine Man, was a Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association national finalist, has trained Pentagon personnel in mounted operations, and acted and ridden in western films.
There is no bit, no bridle and no saddle, so the separation between horse and rider is minimized, the connection maximized. No mechanical contrivances force behavior and compensate for poor riding. Communication is in horse, offering the initiative on his terms, within his nature. The result is an almost unbelievably subtle connectivity of horse with rider.
The first documented native rider in the new world was in 1623, when a Spanish journal noted a mounted Apache war chief.
Nde (Apache) warriors stole trained Spanish war horses creating the first original, indigenous horsemanship tradition on the continent. Nde horsemanship is the epitome of simplicity and versatility.
Nde warriorship was chivalry. Chivalry originally meant war horsemanship. To become a warrior Nde youth had to catch, tame, lead and ride the horses on raids in enemy territory. Nde were the only native to moccasin their mounts hooves.
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The original Apache way of how to train a horse is radically different from western or english riding.
