Message from SPIRIT to members of the ManKind Project
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About cultural appropriation
A collection of resources that give historical context and guidance for understanding this topic.
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In this video, Mato Tá Pejuta Wákan Nawjín, Spokesperson for the Center for Support and Protection of Indian Religions and Indigenous...
Letter from United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Vice-Chair to MKP
The following letter was sent to the leaders of the ManKind Project from the Vice-Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on...
Correspondence between MKP USA and SPIRIT
July 26, 2023 SPIRIT sent the following email to its list: To All Leaders of the ManKind Project International (MKPI): SPIRIT has been...
Beware of fake medicine men
https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/04/17/tim-giago-beware-of-fake-medicine-men-an.asp
For all those who were Indian in another life...
http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/articles/formlife.htm
Sweat Lodges: No you can't. Here's Why.
https://nativeappropriations.com/2010/04/sweat-lodges-part-ii-no-you-cant-heres-why.html
Wanting To Be Indian: When Spiritual Searching Turns Into Cultural Theft
https://findingourwayhome.blog/wanting-to-be-indian/
Think Before You Appropriate: Things to know and questions to ask in order to avoid misappropriating
http://www.sfu.ca/ipinch/sites/default/files/resources/teaching_resources/think_before_you_appropriate_jan_2016.pdf
The Violence of Forgetting (NY Times article, paywall)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/opinion/the-violence-of-forgetting.html
The Truth About the Wounded Knee Massacre, by Patti Jo King (article)
The 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee remains a revered symbol of colonial repression and Native resistance for indigenous people....
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