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The Voice of the Horse Gathering features a unique slate of presenters from different riding traditions, cultures, and disciplines. Each person's presentation is available via streaming webcast through September 30, 2007. We are very proud to introduce them to you, in alphabetical order.
 Mario Contreras
is Head Horse Trainer and Stable Manager at the Schaumberg, Illinois Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament. He is an FEI (International Federation for Equestrian Sports) dressage trainer and competitor, who trains riders and horses to Grand Prix Level dressage. He trains, shows, and does exhibitions of Spanish Riding, Doma Vaquera, and high school movements such as the Piaffe, Spanish Walk, and Airs Above the Ground. He is also an advanced trick trainer and rider, and has experience in stallion management and training.
Mario Contreras Website
 Carmon Deyo
currently teaches a series of experimental classes designed to deepen the spiritual bond between student and horse. These classes empower both horse and human through understanding natural herd roles and developing an exchange of leadership rather than domination. She is an award-winning artist and jewelry designer whose work has most recently been featured by Chamisa Ridge and is offered from her own Black Horse Design Studio. She has ridden dressage, hunter jumpers, and cross country endurance, and has both trained and taught dressage.
Carmon Deyo Black Horse Design Website
 Preston Duncan
(Meskwaki) is an Elder from the Meskwaki Nation, whose tribal lands included the site of present-day Ames, Iowa, where the live presentations were recorded. Mr. Duncan honored our gathering with the language Native to this land, during both Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
 Linda Hogan
(Chickasaw) is an internationally recognized, award-winning author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and essays who is currently working on a book about Indian ponies. Her books include the Pulitzer-Prize finalist novel Mean Spirit, which won an Oklahoma Book Award and Mountains and Plains Book Award. She has received significant recognition of many kinds for her works, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and Wordcraft Circle.
 Ginger Kathrens
is an Emmy award-winning natural history producer, cinematographer, editor and author whose recent work includes her documentaries and books “Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies” and “Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns” which chronicle the life of the pale wild stallion she named Cloud on the day he was born. This unique and intimate journey with a family of wild horses reveals what horses are really all about. Her first Cloud film was voted the most popular episode in the 25 year history of PBS’s Nature series. In 2005, Ginger founded The Cloud Foundation, a Colorado 501(c)3 dedicated to the preservation of wild horses on our public lands and the protection of Cloud’s herd in the Arrrowhead Mountains of Montana. Kathrens has traveled the world, producing a wide range of documentary films for PBS, National Geographic, the BBC, and the Discovery Channel.”
The Cloud Foundation Website
 Marjorie Kittredge
quite literally started the field of therapeutic riding when, in 1964, she founded Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation to help children with emotional and physical disabilities. She went on to found the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) in 1969 and has served on its board and as its president. NAHRA now has more then 650 approved centers in the United States, serving approximately 30,000 individuals. Marj has traveled with the United States Paralympic Team and served on the International Para-Olympics Equestrian Committee.
Windrush Farm website
 Kim McElroy
is an award-winning equine artist whose work explores the emotional, spiritual and dynamic presence of horses. Her artwork has been commissioned by Leanin' Tree Greeting Cards, The Bradford Exchange, and Wild Heart Ranch, and she also has her own Spirit of Horse Gallery. Increasingly involved in collaborating with specialists in the field of Equine Assisted Personal Growth, McElroy has studied with Linda Kohanov at Epona in a pre-apprenticeship program and has assisted as a co-facilitator in equine personal growth workshops.
Kim McElroy gallery website
 The Meskwaki
Travelers Drum and Singers
The Meskwaki Travelers singing group has traveled throughout the nation participating in other tribe’s pow-wows, fairs, and celebrations. The unique Meskwaki style of music provides the basis for all of the Meskwaki songs performed which enhances the different tribal dances as well. The Meskwaki Dances with accompanying Songs can be seen and heard at the Annual Meskwaki Indian Pow-Wow on the Meskwaki Settlement during the second weekend of August every year. The Meskwaki Travelers singing group and dance troupe also performs for the many different celebrations, fairs, and festivals through out the State of Iowa. The group is headed by Mr. Harlan Brown.
 Michael Martin Murphey
singer/ songwriter of American Cowboy Music, is familiar to horse-lovers everywhere for his hit song “Wildfire" and for his more recent "Horse Legends" CD. An Adjunct Professor of Music and American Studies at Utah State University, he has received 5 awards from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Department of the Interior's Golden Smokey Award. Murphey performs a solo acoustic "Horse Legends" concert as part of this event.
Michael Martin Murphey website
 Jane Savoie
competed internationally for the United States Equestrian Team and has won nine Horse of the Year awards and three National Freestyle Championships. A renowned dressage rider, trainer, clinician, speaker, and author, she has coached Olympic riders on both Canadian and United States three-day event and dressage teams. She has written four books, as well as countless articles for magazine publications such as Dressage Today and Equus. She has produced three instructional video tape series about developing a successful mindset for riding and living.
Jane Savoie website
 Kyla Two Bulls
(Lakota) won first place, at age 14, in the 2006 National American Indian Science and Engineering Fair with a study of blood sugar chemistry in horses, that used the Medicine Wheel Model of Natural Horsemanship developed by Phillip Whiteman, Jr. She also placed first at the 2006 Montana State Science Fair, in the biological eighth-grade science division, and third in the 2006 Billings Clinic Science Expo. Two Bulls also trains horses using the Medicine Wheel Model.
 Phillip Whiteman, Jr.
(Northern Cheyenne) is a nationally renowned horseman, Cultural Consultant, performing artist and international presenter. His award-winning CD “Spirit Seeker” includes traditional stories and songs. He was inducted into the All Indian Hall of Fame, is a First Peoples Fund Fellow and was recently profiled in Western Horseman Magazine. Whiteman founded the Medicine Wheel Model to Natural Horsemanship, a Native Approach to working with horses. As part of the model he works with the spirit of the horse and human, as well as the body and mind.
Phillip Whiteman Jr. website
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