Many Horses Foundation

MANY HORSES FOUNDATION

The Many Horses Foundation teaches the Earth People's perspective of living in right relationship with all living beings.
The Many Horses Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization established in 1997 in Arizona with subsequent branches in Colorado and Georgia.
We are dedicated to preserving the earth perspective teaching of the Elders, sharing them with our youth, and any that wish to learn.
These teachings include proper relationship to all things, living with respect, honor, courage and generosity to all.
Through the teachings and ceremonies, we strive to remember how to live in balanced relationship with our Mother Earth and all of her children.
We honor the natural world and protect her through our actions.
We help protect and preserve the wild horse that so personifies the spirit of this land.

Our goal is to live in harmony with all the Natural World, and to share and teach others to do the same.
The Many Horses Foundation knows that being in good relationship is the key to a balanced life, for the Creator makes nothing that is not alive. 

PURPOSE & GOALS

Our purpose is to create opportunities for people to reestablish a harmonious, respectful consciousness about their relationship with the Earth and all living things.
We carry this out by:

Protecting and preserving the wild horse and rescue horses.
Sponsoring experiential teachings for all people wishing to know more of the earth ways. These teachings are provided to improve relationships with family, children, community , the natural world and self.
Creating leadership schools for all ages using the ancient wisdom and teachings of our elders from the earth perspective ways.

PAST PROJECTS

For the past twenty five years, we have organized hundreds of teaching seminars and continued to offer ceremonies to the general public.

We have:

Held Animal Spirit Dances, Sweat Lodge ceremonies, and Many Horses Drum ceremonies in GA , VA, Delaware, AZ and CO
Participated in various community-based educational forums such as a talks and booths at the Whole Life Expo in 1999 and the Atlanta Expo in 2007, CDC native heritage days in 2005 and 2006, Bioneers annual events 2006-2008, and the International Indigenous Treaty conference in Florida on the Seminole lands in 2007.
Supported the production of the CD by Danny Beaton, “Message from a Mohawk Child,” and the production of a series of interviews with Elders on DVD. Supported other documentaries focused on Native American and Canadian elder teachers, as well.
Participated in the "Walk for Water" in Italy 2007 from the headwaters of the Tiber to the Vatican.
Organized and Supported the "Walk for the Water" in June of 2008 in Georgia - a ten day honoring of the Chattahoochee river from its headwaters to Atlanta, which raised consciousness and reminded us to be thankful for the gift of water and for the entire natural world.
Supported the Longest Walk II also in the summer of 2008, which was a 2000 mile walk to support the protection of sacred sites and to draw attention to environmental issues across the land.
Represented and co-led the SOS (Solidify our Sovereignty) Walk from Southern California to Sacramento -walk for unity and sovereignty of the California tribes in 1998.
Led drum for the Fall Gathering in Virginia in Oct 2015, at Waccamau reservation in 2009, at the fall gathering in North Ga in 2013 and 2014, and at the Women’s Fest of the South Intertribal drum festival in 2015.
Offered financial support to individual elders..
Held Rights of Passage programs for teens, including one dedicated to Atlanta’s at-risk youth.
Hosted cultural awareness in-service workshops for continuing education credit for high school teachers and school psychologists at Cherokee county schools, West Georgia College, and a professional psychologists organization in CA.
Created a healing arts teaching series for TN state credit at the Heart Center in Memphis.
Participated in Native Awareness Day drumming, song, and frybread at the CDC in Atlanta.
Interviewed with CNN where three anchors and a producer attended a sweat lodge ceremony to raise awareness of the power of traditional ceremony (Interview linked on our Media page).
Participated in two interview shows on HLN and In session TV, one with Vinnie Politan, and one with Ryan Smith and Christie Paul of True TV, in March 2011.
Participated in multiple Cable TV shows with Sam Mathews, several Atlanta live radio programs with Knowledge, and various radio programs in TN

CURRENT PROJECTS

We are currently focusing most of our energy establishing an off grid solar powered community called Thunderbird Ranch in Mancos, Coloardo.
At Thunderbird:

We offer those seeking a lifestyle based on right relationship with the natural world a place to live.
We offer ceremonial events on the ranch on a regular basis.
We offer drumming/teaching weekly events.
We have taken in rescue horses and board and train them.
We grow organic foods with permaculture principles, and raise dairy goats and chickens

For more information, please see our page titled "Thunderbird Ranch."