Our Mission

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The long-term mission of Nokota Wild Preservation is exactly that.   Preserve this living legacy, the work that Frank and Leo Kuntz and their families put into saving this precious breed, the native prairie that the Nokotas are indigenous too, and the Native Tribes that welcomed them as part of their families. 

The Preservation strives only to make sure the Nokotas have a permanent home in their homeland.  We seek to secure the herd of Nokotas that Frank does not return to Native Tribes of North Dakota and acquire more land that the Nokotas roamed prior to and with the Lakota People as the horses were domesticated.  

The securing of the herd will take time as will the acquisition of more acreage near Whiskey Road Reserve, home of 34 of Frank’s herd.  Eventually, through the guidance of Frank Kuntz, Founding Nokota Preservation  Advisor, the Nokota Wild will breed Nokotas and ensure proper bloodlines cross and stay healthy and flourish into future generations.  

The Nokota Wild Preservation is teaming with Whiskey Road Reserve, who conducts daily herd management, in effort to support all Nokota operation necessities.  A list follows as to what is necessary and the order of importance of each of these necessities for the livelihood of Nokotas at Whiskey Road Reserve:

• Securing an agreement with an annual hay provider
• Water tank maintenance ensuring constant water availability
• Current fence stability
• Enhancement of pasture habitat
• Construction and placement of wind shelters in existing pasture utilizing recycled materials to construct
• Establishing Stallion and foaling Mare holding pens around the barn utilizing recycled materials to construct in effort to manage breeding calendar
• Shelter from extreme weather during foaling.
• Nokota Wild Preservation Education Program

The Nokota Wild Preservation, as part of their normal operations, is putting together education opportunities to share with the public, focusing on local schools and schools on Tribal Lands.  Nokota Wild Preservation will be working together with The Buffalo Grande Foundation in presenting history of the native prairies, the buffalo, Nokota® horses, and the Lakota People and their relationship with the aforementioned environment and animals.  

We will work together with the Buffalo Grande Foundation with their tours that include Native American Narrative, tours of sites that Chief Sitting Bull hunted with his tribe and used the ancestors of these Nokota horses to ride during those hunts and places of battles.

Our focus is to respect and acknowledge the Native Americans, specifically the Lakota People, and their narrative of the great plains, buffalo and the Sun’ka Wakan, what became the honorary Equine of North Dakota in 1993, the Nokota horse.