WAMBLI MATO SEZ: I SPENT A BEAUTIFUL PACIFIC NORTHWEST EVENING AT THE MISSION CREEK CORRECTION CENTER FOR WOMEN(MCCCW)TONIGHT WITH THE RED WILLOW CIRCLE FEMALE OFFENDERS AND WITH MR. BRIAN HENRY, A CONTRACTED NATIVE AMERICAN CHAPLAIN AND A KAINAI SPIRITUAL LEADER FROM TACOMA, WA. MR. BRAIN HENRY, IS A PART OF THE NEW WAVE OF NATIVE AMERICAN SPIRITUAL LEADERS, WHO WILL ONE DAY MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF BROKEN INCARCERATED NATIVE AMERICAN MALE AND FEMALE OFFENDERS IN THESE PLACES! AGAIN, IT IS ALWAYS BOTH PRIVILEGE AND PLEASURE TO WORK WITH THESE NATIVE AMERICAN FEMALE OFFENDERS, WHO ARE SO EAGER TO LEARN THEIR NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE, TRADITIONS, VALUES/VIRTUES AND SPIRITUAL LIFEWAYS! IT IS, LITERALLY, HEARTBREAKING AND GUTWRENCHING TO SEE YOUNG, BRIGHT AND SOME GIFTED YOUNG NATIVE WOMEN IN THESE PLACES, MANY OF WHOM ARE MOTHERS THEMSEVES, AND, YET ARE STILL ATTEMPTING TO LEND SUPPORT TO THEIR CHILDREN! AS A MAN WHO HAS BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK A FEW TIMES, IT IS EVEN A SAD AND TEARFUL EVENT FOR ME TO SEE MANY, WHOSE LIVES WILL BE DISFIGURED, PERHAPS FOREVER! AS ALWAYS, THEY WERE VERY POLITE, INQUISITIVE AND EAGER TO LEARN, BRINGING THEIR PAPER AND PENCILS TO CLASS WITH THEM AND READY TO TAKE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF NOTES---WHAT A GROUP OF EAGER STUDENTS THEY WERE TONIGHT. THESE NATIVE AMERICAN SISTERS ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR CRIMES, IN MANY CASES HORRIFIC CRIMES AND DO EXPRESS BOTH REGRET REMORSE, BUT, WOULD ALSO REQUIRE ONGOING SUPPORT ONCE THEY ARE RELEASED FROM THESE FACILITIES. THEY SIMPLY CANNOT DO IT ALONE SINCE RESOURCES ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO LOCATE FOR THESE PARTICULAR INCARCERATED POPULATION GROUPS, IN GENERAL. AS NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WE MUST NEVER FORGET OUR MORAL OBLIGATION TO ASSIST OTHERS IN THEIR TIME OF NEED, NEVER FORGETTING THAT WE ARE STILL FAMILY, STILL TRIBAL, STILL COMMUNITY AND NEVER FORSAKE THOSE WHO ARE EARNESTLY ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES! REMEMBER THIS: ALL LAKOTA ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OTHER LAKOTA, THIS HAS BEEN SO SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CREATION---HARLAN EAGLE BEAR, SAIYELA/SICANGU LAKOTA? WOULD YOU RENDER ASSISTANCE, IF ONE OF THEM WERE/WAS YOUR SISTER? A WIFE? A COUSIN? A MOTHER? A GRANDMOTHER? AN AUNT? I WILL LEAVE THAT UP TO YOU TO DECIDE, KNOWING AS ALWAYS YOU WILL LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE BY DOING THE RIGHT THING AND MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE WHEN IT COUNTS THE MOST! HO HECETU WELO!!!!!!!
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:46:08 +0000
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