My name is "Little Fawn".
I was born in a dirty, dusty corral in a place called "Fish Creek" Nevada.
My mother is a beautiful buckskin mare. Well, at least she used to be before Fish Creek.
You see, my mother and other family members used to run wild on 1000's of acres where there were trees for shade, creeks and springs for drinking and splashing in, mountains so tall you couldn't climb them in one day. And grass! Fresh green grass for the taking. That's what it was like before Fish Creek. Before hunger set in - hard. Now my mother is a weak and boney mare just barely alive.
I never met my father. My mother said he is a proud stallion who tried hard to protect us until the trucks came and took him away. No one knows where he went.
I asked my mother why we couldn't live in the grassy mountain valley and she explained that it was complicated, but the government said we didn't have the right to live there anymore. The Shoshone women who owned our herd fought for us, but the government won and we had to leave. Some of my herd went to a ranch in Texas, and some went to a ranch in California and some we just don't know where they went. My mother said our group of 150 mares and foals were supposed to go to the California ranch too, but something went wrong.
The new owner forgot about us. He didn't send money to feed our Fish Creek group and everyone got real skinny and sick. For 3 months my mother watched her sisters and friends give birth to dead babies because they didn't have enough nourishment. Some of the mothers died too.
When I was born she was very happy and tried so hard to give me milk, but there just wasn't enough. I held on as long as I could hoping that food would come and my mother would be able to nurse me. But, I couldn't wait any longer. Finally I just laid down and went to sleep.
At least it doesn't hurt anymore.
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