Welcome back to another look at highlights of what is coming your way on DVD and Blu-ray. Much like the last edition, the pickings are slim, but there are a couple of noteworthy releases both new and old. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure and give one of these titles a...DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for July 31, 2015
Welcome back to another look at highlights of what is coming your way on DVD and Blu-ray. Much like the last edition, the pickings are slim, but there are a couple of noteworthy releases both new and old. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure and give one of these titles a...Glory Days Restored: Ceremonial Rodeo Features Fun for Everyone
Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial would not be complete without the historical rodeo that accompanies the Native dancing and artistry. Event coordinator Dudley Byerley has organized a rip-roaring event that is sure to entertain the masses.The rodeo was nearly cancelled last year. Byerley said he received a call from McKinley County Commissioner Carol Bowman-Muskett and New Mexico State Rep. Patty Lundstrom, D-Gallup.
They asked him if he could take charge and make a rodeo happen. And he did. With only about six weeks to organize it, Byerley put together a decent rodeo that made money.
The rodeo budget was increased this year and Byerley reports that with support from the community...
Rodeo was a family affair
When Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial was born it took on much of the excitement and fun that was found at fairs and Fourth of July celebrations all over the Southwest. Many of these activities were open to everybody.In the late 1800s some cowboys in either Arizona or West Texas, or both, decided to hold a contest to see which cattle outfit had the best group of hands. It is said that the events were patterned after actual cowboy activities, but what ranch actually made their men ride bucking steers? Every small town in the West soon had its own rodeo.
The contestants in these contests were not professionals who did nothing but rodeo, but working men who got together once...
Dust, sweat and bruises: ceremonial rodeo revives old time events
From the rodeo news archives …When the Gallup Ceremonial was started in 1922, it was seen as a program of traditional Indian dances as well as a showcase for Native arts and crafts. But the Fourth of July celebrations held in town since Mr. Gallup went on down the tracks, had also featured a variety of races and a few rodeo events.
The sport of rodeo was just getting national attention at the time and few towns had arenas with permanent bucking chutes, regular rules, and profession riders and ropers. In fact, they didn’t have ropers at all. Who wanted to chase a frightened calf through the sagebrush?
For the most part the horses and steers—they hadn’t discovered the...
The Navajo People’s ‘AKALII’ Legendary Cowboy Clarence Peterson
Mention the name, Clarence Peterson, and Rodeo Fans across this great nation will either know him or of his famous “Horse of the Year”, Blackie, with his perfect white diamond on his forehead. The story always was, Clarence Peterson is the toughest competitive cowboy hero of his time.Clarence Begay was born in the month of the “Great Wind” on December 20, 1937 and blessed to Rose Myers-Peterson and Bigboy Begay of Steamboat, Ariz. In time, he changed his namesake to Clarence Peterson, is a rodeo performance name.
Clarence was always a wrangler. He broke and tamed wild horses and roped cattle in his adolescence years near the coal mine where his father had mined coal within...
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