MEMO 3/25/09

Dear Brothers, Aho;

I am in receipt of your requests 3/23/09 for Native American religious items and I will do what I can to provide them. I expect that you two men are known to one another, and I assume that you will want to support each other on the Red Road.

These provisions are made under the auspices of Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run, a Quaker congregation in Baltimore, and are sent to you through your chaplain’s office. Please provide me with the name of the administrative Chaplain at C T Terrall Unit and his address, if it is different from your own.

Also, it will be of interest to Friends what the conditions are at C T Terrall Unit for the accommodation of Native American spirituality. Any information that you can provide to me about your Hoop - including how it is organized, what your regular cycles of meetings & observances are, what your religious program is – I will share with the committee that oversees this concern.

On the basis of experience, I suggest that you arrange in advance with your chaplain for some means to store & distribute sacred herbs as well as other common property such as a Canupa Wakan & canli, ‘firestarters’ (i.e. matches), Drum, education materials, etc., as these items are typically subject to administrative controls.

Mitakuye oyasin,