THE WEEKLY PONYXPRESS
Bridgeworks is fortunate to partner with the Lakota Oyate-Ki Culture Club on the PonyXpress project. Chief Matt Reyes organizes our weekly Oregon State Penitentiary meetings making sure that call-outs and transport memos are properly obtained. There is always hot coffee, extra pens and pads of paper for people who join us. Inside the writing workshop, we have created a space where people of different communities and backgrounds are welcome to experiment with writing — this is in keeping with the spirit of the club’s mission.
MISSION STATEMENT
Lakota Oyate Ki Cultural Club reaches out to outside communities, provides a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every individual member has the opportunity to learn, and involve themselves in Native American Indigenous spirituality, tradition, and culture. They allow the membership a means to address their needs and concerns to the prison administration and/or a legal advisor so as to preserve and protect the sanctity of the Native American Culture and the mission of the Lakota Oyate Ki Cultural Club.
In recognition of the day, we reprise BOARDING SCHOOL INHERITANCE by Blackfoot and Irish writer Nolan James Briden, which was written for our anthology Prisons Have A Long Memory. In February 2022, the piece was reprinted in Oregon Humanities Beyond the Margins online publication. | TDS