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Tarek and Jamie doing a great job at Blackfeet, veterinary medicine and teaching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rco1jWKrwWM
If I don't post it you may not know about RVETS Brooke USA funded project working with the Two Powers Land Collective and the Blackfeet Community College in Browning, Montana. This is innovative project, to improve the availability and quality of hoof care on the Blackfeet Reservation, is being headed by Drs. Tarek Isham and Jamie White. It all got started when a videographer and good friend of RVETS, Dawn Perrine, met Lynn Mad Plume, the founder of Two Powers, a horse based, native people led, program to improve the lives of young people on the reservation. You'll love the interview with Lynn, a brilliant Blackfoot who is making something wonderful from a personal tragedy.

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Waiting for their turn in Charco de Sierra
This is from a while ago, but it is so typical of Guanajuato. Rocky hillsides, mesquite and maguey, everything made of brick or stone, and it runs on b***os. The RVETS México team is all about equids, but we are not “species specific”. A cat vaccination, a cow cesarian, a dehydrated kid, a “dog-hit-by-machete”, a ewe needing some help lambing, or a cactus spine in any part of any creature you might choose. We would set up after a long drive down a dry creek bed, up a hillside, and through the narrow trails between little houses. As if there had been some kind of massive public relations campaign, everybody in every little canyon, mountain top, or rancho just seemed to know we were there without a word being spoken. From the kids and abuelas with their b***os to the young guys with their caballos, they rode, hiked, and galloped onto whatever spot they could find. Horses tied to b***os, tied to mules, tied to b***os, tied to a flimsy little water starved maguey bush would soon be populating the spaces in between the boulders. Boxes of equipment and supplies spread across the hillside the eager students and their supervisors started spreading out, reading the “papelitos” that held the key to the order that patients would be seen. Physicals were happening, mouths examined, and judgements made on the sedation/anesthesia protocol for surgeries. While this b***o does not look thrilled about its small scruffy burden, all will be handled gently, with respect, and on their way back to the mountains soon enough.