The Truth About Black Cowboy Culture that Nobody Taught You with Drake LeBlanc sponsored by YETI

The Truth About Black Cowboy Culture that Nobody Taught You with Drake LeBlanc sponsored by YETI

What if the story of the American cowboy is bigger than the version most of us were handed?

In this episode, Noëlle sits down with Drake LeBlanc, a Creole cowboy from Louisiana, filmmaker, and cultural preservationist. The conversation that unfolds is about history, identity, and what it really means to live a culture rather than wear it.

Drake was raised in a community where horses are not a hobby or an aesthetic. They are Sunday trail rides, music in the air, food cooking by trailers, land passed down through generations, and families riding together. They are belonging.

Together, they explore the untold history of Black cowboys, how the image of the American cowboy was reshaped through media, and what was lost when culture became costume.

This conversation is not just about the past. It is about how the stories we are handed down, the way they shape how we see ourselves, and who we believe belongs in the horse world.

In this episode you will learn:

About Drake LeBlanc: Drake LeBlanc is a Lafayette, Louisiana-based filmmaker, documentarian, and photographer. He is one of the most compelling cultural voices working today in the preservation of Creole heritage and black cowboy history. His documentary Footwork has brought international attention to the Louisiana Creole cowboy tradition and the Louisiana trail rides that keep black cowboy culture alive every weekend across the American South.

You can find Drake on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lovebenoir/

Drake's film work can be found here https://filmfreeway.com/FootworkLA

Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Dear Horse World wherever you listen, leave us a review — it genuinely helps more people find these conversations — and share this episode with someone who needs to hear the real story of cowboys in America.

This episode is generoulsy sponsored by:

YETI

Made for early mornings in the barn and long days in the saddle. Whether you're hauling feed, chasing daylight on the trail, or loading up for a weekend on the road, YETI coolers and drinkware are built to handle it.

No shortcuts. No compromise.

Just gear that works as hard as you do.

Explore more at YETI.com | @YETI | facebook.com/YETI

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction & the moment on the Atchafalaya Basin that set the tone

03:00 "I know my community" — why deep roots change everything

04:00 What is a Creole cowboy? Defining Creole culture and Louisiana's gumbo pot

07:00 What is a parish? Louisiana's Napoleonic Code explained

08:00 The vulnerability of introducing yourself as a Creole cowboy

10:00 Why Drake feels called to educate even when it's exhausting

12:00 The real history of black cowboy culture Hollywood erased

14:00 Why "1 in 4 cowboys were Black" is actually an undercount

15:00 "Cowboy" was a derogatory term — the truth about who built the West

17:00 What Hollywood took from Black cowboy culture and what it missed

19:00 Why money can't buy the spiritual bond between horse and rider

22:00 Tribal designs, turquoise, and the hidden origins of Western style

26:00 The spiritual meaning of turquoise in Native American horse culture

29:00 "You not pap" — live your culture or kill it, there's no in between

32:00 Shoutout to Chris Lewis & reining horses in the Creole community

37:00 Cultural gentrification in the horse world — what it is and why it matters

42:00 Advice for horse communities feeling threatened by change

45:00 Feeling alone in the horse world — Drake's answer

47:00 "Move to Louisiana" — and what community actually looks like

51:00 Time and intention: the only two things a horse truly needs

53:00 How to be brave when you're afraid to speak up

56:00 Find something you fear MORE — Drake's philosophy on courage

58:00 When Drake realized the outside world didn't know Black cowboys existed

1:07:00 Trail rides, thousands of riders, and how Creole horse culture thrives

1:11:00 Zydeco music, food, and why making it fun kept the culture alive

1:13:00 Rapid fire: book rec, most iconic horse, most undervalued skill

1:17:00 Greatest horseman of all time and mares vs stallions vs geldings

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(93)

Why You Should Stop Patting Your Horse | Martin Black on Western Horse Training

Why You Should Stop Patting Your Horse | Martin Black on Western Horse Training

We pat our horses to tell them they did well. Martin Black says the horse would rather we kept our hands to ourselves. He has spent a life inside western horse training — starting close to five hundre...

10 Elo 1h

Monty Roberts, Alexandra Kurland, and the Future of Horse Training

Monty Roberts, Alexandra Kurland, and the Future of Horse Training

When I was eleven, my mom handed me The Man Who Listens to Horses. Last week, the man who wrote it died. Within days, the horse world also lost Alexandra Kurland — the woman who spent decades convinci...

4 Elo 18min

Your Saddle Fits a Horse That No Longer Exists — Letitia Glenn on Horse Care

Your Saddle Fits a Horse That No Longer Exists — Letitia Glenn on Horse Care

You measure with your hand while he stands there. Then he takes a step, and the horse you measured is gone. Saddle fit is horse care. I rode my whole life before anyone said that to me plainly. I met ...

22 Heinä 1h 16min

Horse Training and the Nervous System: What's Really Happening in Your Horse's Brain | Dr. Stephen Peters (Pt. 2)

Horse Training and the Nervous System: What's Really Happening in Your Horse's Brain | Dr. Stephen Peters (Pt. 2)

We say we want a willing horse. Then we climb on, and we start cramming. And when the horse gets tight, or slow, or stuck, we do the one thing that guarantees it gets worse — we add pressure. This is ...

14 Heinä 50min

Your Horse Isn't Being Bad — Dr. Stephen Peters on Horse Behavior, the Nervous System & Learned Helplessness Part 1 sponsored by Total Feeds

Your Horse Isn't Being Bad — Dr. Stephen Peters on Horse Behavior, the Nervous System & Learned Helplessness Part 1 sponsored by Total Feeds

Every rider has said it. He's being stubborn. She's testing me. He knows better. Here's the harder, truer thing underneath: the horse isn't being anything. The horse is a nervous system, doing the one...

7 Heinä 52min

Joe Stockdale on Riding Confidence, Grief & the Show Jumping Career He Inherited

Joe Stockdale on Riding Confidence, Grief & the Show Jumping Career He Inherited

Everybody wants the clear round. The win. The photo at the top of the podium. Here's the part the sport keeps offstage — the doubt, the grief, the voice at the in-gate asking if you even belong here. ...

30 Kesä 1h 5min

How to Read Horse Behavior — Elsa Sinclair on the 5 Types of Leadership

How to Read Horse Behavior — Elsa Sinclair on the 5 Types of Leadership

There is a question almost every one of us carries to the barn and never says out loud. Not how do I get him to do this. But: does he actually trust me — or is he just complying? This is Part 2 of my ...

23 Kesä 1h 5min

What If Your Horse Could Say No? Elsa Sinclair on Freedom Based Training Part 1

What If Your Horse Could Say No? Elsa Sinclair on Freedom Based Training Part 1

Most of us learned to ride before we ever learned to ask. We learned the halter, the rope, the pressure, the release. We learned how to make a horse do the thing. And somewhere in there, quietly, a lo...

16 Kesä 57min

Suosittua kategoriassa Koulutus

rss-murhan-anatomia
psykopodiaa-podcast
voi-hyvin-meditaatiot-2
rss-arkea-ja-aurinkoa-podcast-espanjasta
kesken
rss-vapaudu-voimaasi
rss-niinku-asia-on
rss-liian-kuuma-peruna
adhd-podi
rss-suomen-aa-podcast
jari-sarasvuo-podcast
aamukahvilla
psykologia
rahapuhetta
rss-luonnollinen-synnytys-podcast
rss-duodecim-lehti
rss-laadukasta-ensihoitoa
solu-ja-molekyylibiologian-perusteet
rss-johtajatabut-aiheita-joista-ei-ole-tapana-puhua
rss-nyt-puhutaan-ulosotosta