A lifestyle and enduring relationship with horses lends to the popularity of rodeo in Indian Country
Kicking up a cloud of dust, the men riding bareback were in a rowdy scramble to be the first to lean down from atop their horses and grab hold of the chicken that was buried up to its neck in the ground.
The competition is rarely on display these days and most definitely not with a live chicken. And yet, it was this tradition and other horse-based contests in tribal communities that evolved into a modern-day sport that now fills arenas far and
