Painted Horse drum group and horse dancers open the keynote with a welcome honoring the day the horse was created during "Editing the Cowboy Archetype," at the 39th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Painted Horse
Owyhee, NV
Shoshone, Paiute and Pit River tribal members make up Painted Horse – a drum group from the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northeastern Nevada. The Painted Horse drum group represents the eighth generation descended from Shoshone tribal member Old Horse, who lived in the Great Basin in the late 1700s. Founded in 1975, the drum group performs for pow wows and ceremonial and special events in their home community of Duck Valley Indian Reservation and throughout the Western States region. They carry forward older traditional and family songs drawing on their Shoshone, Paiute, and Pit River heritage. The Painted Horse family was the last family to hold the horse dance using actual horses in the 1940s. The family group is led by respected horseman, tribal elder, and buckaroo Reggie Sope. Members include Devin Deitch, Silas Horn, Valentina Horn, Lyle “Slim” Lowman, Cammie Jones, Zane Jones, Milo Shay, Bradley Sope, Jenna Sope, Lenora Sope, Murray Sope, Arnold Thomas, and Ty Townsend.

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Filmed in front of a live audience with help from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation at the Elko Convention Center’s Laurena Moren Theater, on Feb. 1, 2024.

Sponsored by the Humanities Center at Great Basin College, made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the multitude of staff, artists, volunteers, and community members working behind the scenes to make this show happen.

Brought to you by the Western Folklife Center, using story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
www.westernfolklife.org

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