Oglala Lakota Indian from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD. As a toddler, was with his mother at the Pine Ridge Jail. Buddy described memories of using a cigarette box to play "car" on the jail's cell floor. Tribal judge Peter Two Bulls, Sr told his daughter Maisie and her husband, Steve Red Bow about the little boy in jail; they went in to see him, took him to their home along the White River, and raised him as their own. He grew up with the horses that ranged free in that "wide, open space" (Steve's description), learning the equine mojo that served him later when he worked as the technical advisor in numerous Western films; at least once, in Buddy's words, he "tried to teach Japanese extras how to ride like real Indians.".