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Thurman Horse
Myself, I'm a single parent of four kids. Sometimes I leave the reservation - I go live in cities or local towns and I come back, but no changes have been made yet.
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Thurman Horse, a magnetic young artist and father of four, struggled to raise his children in cluster housing - a reservation-style ghetto. He has been sober for seventeen years despite the surrounding environment of alcoholism, gangs and graffiti. During the filming of HOMELAND, Thurman moved off the reservation twice, first to Rapid City, South Dakota, and then to Sacramento, California, in order to establish himself in the art communities and to provide a better education for his children. Thurman tried to adapt to city life, while retaining ties to his relatives and teaching his children the Lakota language and traditions. Confronted with reactions ranging from curiosity to prejudice, he found that being an "urban Indian" was at times both strange and exhilarating.
View Thurman Horse's artwork.
After HOMELAND:
Thurman remains in Sacramento, working full time. In his nonworking hours, he continues to paint. He received a commission for a mural in a Sacramento-area casino and is planning an exhibition of his work for 2001. In the coming year, he hopes to reunite with his children, who are currently living with their mother.
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