Speaking Truth to Power

Prisoner Advocacy: Compassion, Love, Truth, Voice By Edna P. Dixon October 27, 2024 On Thursday morning, Oct. 26, 2023, I received a very disturbing phone call from Steven, one of the long-timers I’ve had the privilege to know and advocate for during the past 10 years. For the past year, Steven has been under theContinue reading “Speaking Truth to Power”

Night Ride to Freedom’s Door

Step Into The Light Chapter 1 By Steven Walks On The Grass September 15, 2022 It’s funny how you think you have yourself prepared and all the mental shackles of the past 23 years of captivity are just going to go away when you’re finally released to a halfway house and the first small stepsContinue reading “Night Ride to Freedom’s Door”

What Price Compassion

All For The Right To Pray Part Eight – The Warrior Comes Home Chapter 25 The Covid-19 pandemic hit all the prisons hard early in 2020. By April 1st all normal activities had ceased at Talladega and we found ourselves on total lockdown with no relief for months. There was no fast-track out for theContinue reading “What Price Compassion”

Still I Walk The Red Road

All For The Right To Pray Part Seven – Twenty Six Years in Federal Prison Chapter 24 With nothing more to lose, I put my trust in Spirit and just went right on doing what I had always known I was meant to do: teaching and speaking out about injustice and about traditional Native religions.Continue reading “Still I Walk The Red Road”

Railroaded

All For The Right To Pray Part Six – They Want You Gone, You Get Gone Chapter 23 Before I begin to clearly explain and document facts about how I was  railroaded, I would like to say that I do not hold any bad feelings or anger for what was done to me. Now thisContinue reading “Railroaded”

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

The Warrior, The Crone & The Crooked Prosecutor By Edna Peirce Dixon I first heard about a man called Ghost Dancer late in the summer of 2013. It was said he had remarkable knowledge of the ancient traditions, culture, language, and history of the Southeastern Creek Indian peoples, a special interest of mine. At theContinue reading “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”

He Said, She Said, They All Say

Lights In the Distance. . . Walks’ Outdate – 33 Days and Counting By Steven Maisenbacher I can’t get over it, I’m actually at a loss of words over this, I watch the news and within 5 minutes I’ve seen Fox trash everyone that’s not a conservative Republican. Then I walk across the day roomContinue reading “He Said, She Said, They All Say”

Make Sense???

Lights In the Distance. . . Walks’ Outdate – 89 Days and Counting By Steven Maisenbacher On Monday, May 23, 2022, 10 days ago the guards came in around 8am and screamed LOCK DOWN!!! So I did what I always try to do, fired off a burst e-mail to Sings Many Songs telling her weContinue reading “Make Sense???”

Connecting the Dots

All For The Right To Pray Part Nine – Insights Into Ghost Dancer’s Activism Chapter 27 As you have been reading to this point, I’d say most likely you have wondered why this Ghost person seems to be dragged from one bizarre situation to another. Why would government authorities single out this one individual? It’s notContinue reading “Connecting the Dots”

Arrested With No Charges

All For The Right To Pray Part Five – Sweet Freedom Chapter 21 On May 11, 1995, after a little more than a month of leisurely travels in our motorhome with our wolves and towing Cat’s car, I was arrested at the border as we attempted to cross into Alaska. Once I arrived in Fairbanks,Continue reading “Arrested With No Charges”