This about the Confederated Indian Tribes (CIT) I started and sponsored at the Washington State Penitentiary, beginning in 1969. They allowed me to start with five brothers. After I left for Bolivia in 1971, my father and mother took over as sponswers. They were later joined by Marge and Ben Pease, and their family from the Crow Nation.
Some of our great Indigenous people are locked up in prison. When given the opportunity to reconnect to their culture and spirituality, and heal from colonization, they never returned.
