A hearth which destroyed the hay provide at Gray Raven Ranch has resulted in a fundraising initiative.
Primarily based on the Seine River First Nation, close to the Ontario and Minnesota border, Gray Raven’s objective is to make sure the survival of the Ojibwe horses and to protect the distinctive Anishinaabe heritage of partnership with them. A particularly uncommon breed, there are lower than 200 Ojibwe horses left worldwide.
Ojibwe horses Mac and Sim with a younger man from Seine River First Nation. (Gray Raven Ranch photograph)
In line with Thunder Bay Information Watch, workers at Gray Raven stated the September sixteenth fireplace was intentionally set – a reality the OPP had not confirmed at press time.
Within the article, Gray Raven Ranch director Kim Campbell is quoted as saying she first discovered of the catastrophe from a textual content from ranch president, Darcy Whitecrow. “I acquired this horrific image which I didn’t acknowledge at first, imagine it or not,” Campbell advised the information outlet. “We’ve had lots of people who’ve completed silly issues up to now, go in there and smoke a cigarette, however we’ve by no means had the entire barn burn down so shortly and so scorching,” she stated.
The construction was 24′ x 24′ and was used for storing hay for its herd of horses.
Campbell launched a GoFundMe to purchase extra hay and to have it transported to the ranch. “We do fundraisers all year long. We do an enormous occasion at Quetico Provincial Park,” she advised the Thunder Bay Information Watch. “The very last thing we had been anticipating is to have the barn burned down simply on the level of the 12 months after we’ve moved all of the hay in there.”
The marketing campaign has reached its $5,000 objective donations are nonetheless welcome in direction of subsequent 12 months’s wants. In the event you want to donate, go to right here.