I remember meeting Smoke in Colorado, and still have the picture of you and me up on the hill… you on Smoke and me on Babe, my big bay mare. We are the Mutt and Jeff! Both horses came to find a place of love and peace, and we will remember them forever! Thanks for sharing a beautiful story.

Your Friend, Pati

It wasn’t climate change that reduced their numbers, stole their land, and drove them onto reservations like cattle. Justice demands the perpetrator of their suffering make reparations, including return of their land.

The U.S. Government is the criminal perp in this matter, and their management of the former Lemhi Shoshone lands is criminal, too. Moreover, the Lemhi Shoshone are not asking for return of the entire Salmon River watershed, as is their rightful due, but a few thousand acres of formerly sacred land, where their ancestors are buried.

Property rights are human rights, and theirs have been violated. We need to make amends and restore the God-given human rights of the Lemhi Shoshone.

There are no more Aztecs, or Incas, or Vikings, yet we do not seek to give extinct people land any more than we would responsibly try to give an extinct species of plant or animal “habitat.” If it’s gone, there’s no point in giving it anything of substance beyond keeping its memory alive as accurately as possible.

Climate change may have played a role in the demise of this people, just like it more recently played a role in the demise of the farmers of Greenland, albeit the change was a cooling (cold spell), not warming.

The world wide campaign by those who would control all the basic resources necessary for life leads to starvation by politics. Removing all local ability or incentive to harvest trees for shelter, crops for food, and streams for water for life is an elite insanity designed for the most ultimate control of all resources including human ‘capital’.

I think that’s the way the big guys see it. Control the food and $, control the people, for profit. Haiti and Mexico didn’t ask to have their local staff of life production destroyed. This was orchestrated by those who stood to profit by financial gain and control of an ever larger piece of the pie. Those lands were intentionally flooded with inferior grade grains sorely undercutting local production to its death.

If a human landscape no longer suits the big guys needs for ever more resources, they now have a very effective tool for changing that landscape - engineered starvation. It’s happening all over the world, yet still seems so far away to most of the distracted ones in our country - but it is all in place here as well.

Those who have been ‘removed’ from local solutions to the very necessities of life become helpless and hopeless. We in this country have been almost totally removed from any remedy should the soulless wonders of the morally degenerate ‘elite’ decide its time for us to go as they find a more personally profitable use for the landscape.

Local production by and for local people trumps all others in every way that’s good for the land and the people. A plan without morals is not sustainable.

Collectivist and authoritarian interference in agriculture has caused mass starvation again and again throughout history, from the Irish Potato Famine, to Stalin’s genocide in the Ukraine, to modern day starvation in sub-Saharan Africa.

The current global warming insanity is resulting in mass starvation in the poorest countries in the world. That “unintended consequence” of political hysteria in the developed countries is unconscionable. Extortionist international energy policies are much to blame, but the protectionist reaction is equally culpable. Open all doors, and let innovation in. We will all be better off for it.