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!”
Category Archives: Veterans in Prison
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”
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”
Growing Up In Alabama
All For The Right To Pray Part One – Walking in Two Worlds Chapter 4 My father, James Johnson, lost his own father when he was fourteen years old. One of a large farm family, he had to work to help his family survive so he never had much opportunity for a formal education. DadContinue reading “Growing Up In Alabama”
Growing Up in Florida
All For The Right To Pray Part One – Walking in Two Worlds Chapter 3 My mother, born Mary Joyce Beavers, was always a happy-go-lucky person who loved life and loved having fun. She was always a buffer to the world around me and all of her children. We all got our humor, our pranks,Continue reading “Growing Up in Florida”
Invitation to My Nene Cate
All For The Right To Pray Part One – Walking in Two Worlds Chapter 2 The story I bring to you, dear reader, is about my personal journey and some of the wisdom and insights I have been given over a lifetime. Hopefully my story will resonate with something inside of you and you willContinue reading “Invitation to My Nene Cate”
Journeys of the Spirit 