WILD and FREE - SAVING AMERICA'S WILD HORSES OCTOBER 27TH 2001 PRINCESS HOTEL SCOTTSDALE

Second Annual Live and Silent Auction Cocktail and Hors d'oeuvres Star Studded Evening

Hosted by: International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros

Join us for another exciting auction evening with professional auctioneer Jay Fiske. This auction will honor Stephanie Powers, National Spokesperson for ISPMB. Ms. Powers starred in the popular TV series, "Hart to Hart' with Robert Wagner.

The live auction will have many unique items that can be found nowhere else but here! This is your opportunity to have a "one-of-a-kind" and help America's wild horses at the same time!

Joining ISPMB for the star-studded event is Ed McGaa, author of "Mother Earth Spirituality" and several other books. Mr. McGaa will be personally signing books at the auction. Mr. McGaa is an Oglala Sioux tribal member and was born on the Pine Ridge reservation where ISPMB's two wild horse herds now roam. You will love visiting with Mr. McGaa who is known to many as Eagle Man. (More to follow next month.)

ISPMB moved to South Dakota last year after acquiring its second wild horse herd from Gila Bend, Arizona. ISPMB is the oldest and largest wild horse and burro organization in the United States. ISPMB was formed in 1960 by Mrs. Helen Reilly to assist Velma Johnston in her effort to save the last remaining vestiges of our American heritage - our wild horses and burros. In 1971, a federal law was passed to protect our nation's wild horses and burros. Yet, today, we have less horses and burros than when the law passed.

Drastic reductions in herds led ISPMB to developing its own conservation programs to save herds slated for elimination. Thus was born our National Wild Horse and Burro Heritage Center known as Sunka Wakan.

Sunka Wakan, a Lakota word for horse, is an educational tourism and conservation program celebrating the interrelationship of the wild horses, the Lakota people, and the land. Since arriving on the reservation, two ceremonies have taken place to honor the return of wild horses to their sacred land. The Center has received its first grant last year and plans are underway for the design of the Center. The firm, Roto Architects of California, has been chosen to design the buildings to include an Interpretive Center, Museum, and Lodging. Tours of the wild horses have been underway this year at Sunka Wakan.

ISPMB needs your help in the purchase of land and the construction of the Center. This innovative program is designed to save wild horses and burros and create a model for management. The program is designed to become financially self-sustaining through a broad base of tourism. All monies will be dedicated to the preservation and protection of all wild horses and burros on public lands and elsewhere. ISPMB is preparing now to take a third herd of wild horses. We can do that with your help!

For more information please contact Auction Chairperson - Dr. Barbara Campbell -480-596-1008. (Cost is $75.00/person)

Ways you can help!

1.) Donate an unusual item (time-shares, trips, airline tickets, dinners, etc.)

2.) Sponsor a table.

3.) Place an ad in our program book

4.) Make your reservation now to attend!

Items auctioned last year included:

A ride in a World War 11 Biplane complete with goggles and scarf.

A weekend stay in a 1700's log cabin in Tennessee with tickets to the Grand Ole Opry.

A two-hour DJ spot with Tim and Willy on KNIX

Ride along with a fireman on a 911 rescue

Golf and dinner at the famous Desert Mountain Private Golf Course

A weeks vacation in Vale, Colorado.

A weeks vacation at Sunka Wakan and tours of the wild horse ranges.

SEE YOU AT THE AUCTION!