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”
Category Archives: Innocents in prison
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”
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”
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”
When Love Stepped In
All For The Right To Pray Part Four – The Spiritual Warrior Awakens Chapter 16 What the prison officials didn’t understand was that by keeping me in this utter isolation, they were truly allowing me to tap into my inner spirit to find the strength and power available to me. When these tactics didn’t work,Continue reading “When Love Stepped In”
Treachery in High Places
All For The Right To Pray Part Three – The Legacy of Wounded Knee Chapter 14 On the day of my arrest, August 5, 1981, I had just dropped my so-called wife off at her aunt’s house in Pensacola with a rental trailer loaded with her belongings. I had never been to this aunt’s placeContinue reading “Treachery in High Places”
Power in the Law
All For The Right To Pray Part Three – The Legacy of Wounded Knee Chapter 13 Only twice have I ever been allowed to represent a case in court during a trial. Both times I won. The first was on my right to pray, wear long hair, have a pipe ceremony, and my general rightsContinue reading “Power in the Law”
When Life Came Undone
All For The Right To Pray Part Three – The Legacy of Wounded Knee Chapter 12 When I was 16 years old my dad signed for me to enlist in the U.S. Navy. A big part of this decision was to get away from the woman I had been forced to marry at age 15.Continue reading “When Life Came Undone”
The Horseman – Sachem & Me
All For The Right To Pray Part Two – The Making of a Warrior Chapter 9 After Misty was killed, I went to stay with my dad in Alabama for a while to get a grip on my emotions, then returned to my family in Florida. One day, a man came to my stepdad andContinue reading “The Horseman – Sachem & Me”
All For the Right to Pray (9)
Part Two – The Making of a Warrior Chapter 9 – The Horseman – Misty 2 By Ghost Dancer At that time, I was in the 7th grade. One day I went to school and caught the son of another rancher down the road and two other bullies picking on a young girl with disabilitiesContinue reading “All For the Right to Pray (9)”
Journeys of the Spirit 