Farriers and Blacksmiths be damned!
I know alot of horses with good hooves (black horn) that don't need shoes if the going is not too abrasive or too hard. Most unshod pastured horses have healthier hooves than stabled shod horses.
Having been to several Pow Wows, I have to say that those Indians I observed and some I met were wonderful people. At every Pow Wow I attended, they celebrated the American Flag and Veterans in parade. These were very positive experiences. I really cannot bear having American Indians mocked and maligned even if they are unduly influenced by leftist activists. I resent it. I hear bloated ignorance about Indian tribal culture the basis of which was a council of wise elders and a commune order for survival.
I have friends who are one half or one quarter Indian who are sober productive members of society and they don't work at Casinos. This negative stereotyping and cold-blooded lack of empathy only plays into the hands of the leftist agitators. Communists feed on this.
I agree, we shouldn't mock. However, I think it perfectly fair to look back in time and examine reasons for a particular outcome. Indians lost because they were defeated/absorbed by a technologically superior culture. The South lost the Civil War because the North was numerically and technologically superior. The German army and particularly the Waffen SS fought very hard but were crushed by numerically and technologically superior nations.
Sounds like the flag waving Indians at the Pow Wow are different than the ones that show up at Alcatraz.