A blast from the past - Mohee and Sioux

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One of the comments on my last discussion mentioned the Ute was the name of a Native American tribe. When I was small, my father bred horses and mostly paint/pinto/skewbald/coloured horses. Cowboy and Indian films were very popular at the time and the Indians mostly seemed to have coloured ponies. Quite a few of our coloured horses were given names of Indian tribes. Some that I can remember were Apache, Cheyenne, Mohee, Sioux - but we didn't have a Ute. Photo shows Sioux and Mohee at an agricultural show (similar to a State Fair, I guess). I am riding Sioux and I was eight years old. I’m sorry about the quality of the photo. After this, the two ponies had to be turned out (let loose in the paddock) for twelve months as shortly before, they’d been stolen by two aboriginal boys, ridden some distance then turned loose. They’d eaten from some poison plants, which I’ve also written about previously. We didn’t realise they’d done this till they both got sick after the show.