When we first started doing it on horses, we always had a sweat because it was we had a few people, you know, that didn't really know too much, but they had their horses hoofed by a buffalo, you know, so I'd seen that.

So that's why we had the sweats.

We prayed so that nobody got hurt.

But the drive was, you know it was the neatest thing to do.

When I first got with the herd people always asked, you know, if you ever need a hand, just call me.

I'll come out and help you.

You know they wanted to help just to say, wow, I went out there and I got this beard on the buffalo for a day or for a couple of days.

They didn't want to be paid.

They just wanted to be part of it.

That's all I'm saying.

They just wanted to be part of the drives.

I can just say they'd never, ever didn't ever do that before with the Buffalo program.

We invited the old people to treatment people.

So when the school kids and stuff like that would come out.

ooww!

And we kind of, like, opened up a new jar of honey, you know, just to let the people, the Blackfeet people know that that's theirs too and they can help.

When we first start doing the drive, you know, the ranchers are pretty hard because all my cows are in my field.

The one you're going through.

Well, we have people in the front kind of like open and open like Moses.

What opened up is that what was it that opened up that water or somebody?

Well, we had to have somebody in the front.

We always have somebody in the front.

but after a few times after we went through theirs, they would actually just sit out there in their truck just to watch the buffalo go from their gate to their next gate.

And they had their story, you know, some of them said, well, let us know next year or this fall or whatever we want to ride.