The Nokota horse developed in the rugged badlands of southwest North Dakota, one of the last strongholds for the Native Americans and the battles they fought against the U.S. government to maintain their way of life. The great Hunkpapa Lakota chief and medicine man, Sitting Bull, was forced to surrender to the U.S. Army in 1881 at Ft. Buford, North Dakota. Not only did the U.S. Calvary confiscate their weapons, but they took their horses. Fast forward 100 years, when the badlands horses were ...