Reflection for Native American Heritage Month By Ghost Dancer Native peoples have a hard time dealing with some of the practices and understandings of other peoples. By this I mean, most Native feel that other people must not think for themselves and are programmed as a whole rather than in freedom of the individual. IContinue reading “NATIVE TRADITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE & INCLUSION”
Category Archives: Ghost Dancer
Alive Again!
All For The Right To Pray Part Eight – The Warrior Comes Home Chapter 26 Letting Go of Prison Now I must tell everyone there is a huge dramatic adjustment anyone getting out of prison must make, especially if this has been the only life you’ve known for a long period of time. There areContinue reading “Alive Again!”
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”
Native Understanding
A Teaching by Ghost Dancer Many people believe that Native ways are simple and can be learned quickly. This is not only absurd but so far from real understanding. Just as in gaining insights on any subject, the more you seek the more you will find. And when you find the answers you seek, youContinue reading “Native Understanding”
Connecting the Dots
All For The Right To Pray 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 not as though he is someone important or anything! Bear withContinue 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”
Bittersweet Memories
All For The Right To Pray Part Five – Sweet Freedom Chapter 22 2015 Conversations – Cat Dancing, Ghost Dancer, EPDixon EPD: Now I know that at some point Ghost got word that he was about to be arrested and that may be when you went to Canada… Neither of you has mentioned that. CAT:Continue reading “Bittersweet Memories”
Fateful Journey
All For The Right To Pray Part Five – Sweet Freedom Chapter 20 In early 1995 word got to me that many of the Sun Dance chiefs, elders and teachers in Canada had been murdered by the authorities in Canada. They had planted explosives on the Sun Dance grounds and sacred ceremonial grounds so thatContinue reading “Fateful Journey”
A Beautiful New Life
All For The Right To Pray Part Five – Sweet Freedom Chapter 19 During these early days two wolves came in to our lives. It was a true blessing that they chose to stay with us and share their lives. One day after I came home from laying brick for 15 hours, Cat told meContinue reading “A Beautiful New Life”