Djupto Nokotas (Sweden)

My passion for the Nokota horses started a June evening a couple decades ago in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. I didn’t know then about Nokotas and I didn’t know that I was watching the stallion Wanblee and his band, nor that I would meet him again some years later, at the Nokota Horse Conservancy. But I did know that the herd of horses that I was watching that serene June evening touched my heart forever and I could not stop wondering what they really where.

So my yearn to understand these horses more led me to the Nokota Horse Conservancy where I became involved in the preservation program for a few years. But what started as a ”mere” wish to preserve this living part of the North American plains’ history, quickly evolved to a sincere love of the personality of this breed as I started to get a close relationship with individual horses. So today, when I am back in Sweden, my home country, and people ask me what I do on my little horse farm in Örnsköldsvik, I say I breed ”kompishästar”. That is Swedish for ”buddy horses”. Because that is where I see the Nokotas really excell; being a human’s best friend.