About cultural appropriation

A collection of resources that give historical context and guidance for understanding this topic.

Message from SPIRIT to members of the ManKind Project

In this video, Mato Tá Pejuta Wákan Nawjín, Spokesperson for the Center for Support and Protection of Indian Religions and Indigenous...

The following letter was sent to the leaders of the ManKind Project from the Vice-Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on...

July 26, 2023 SPIRIT sent the following email to its list: To All Leaders of the ManKind Project International (MKPI): SPIRIT has been...

https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/04/17/tim-giago-beware-of-fake-medicine-men-an.asp

http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/articles/formlife.htm

https://nativeappropriations.com/2010/04/sweat-lodges-part-ii-no-you-cant-heres-why.html

https://findingourwayhome.blog/wanting-to-be-indian/

http://www.sfu.ca/ipinch/sites/default/files/resources/teaching_resources/think_before_you_appropriate_jan_2016.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/opinion/the-violence-of-forgetting.html

The 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee remains a revered symbol of colonial repression and Native resistance for indigenous people....

https://aeon.co/essays/the-line-between-creativity-and-stealing-from-another-culture

https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/allyship/

Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, protect and develop manifestations of their cultures, such as artefacts, designs,...

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her...

In 2003, this proclamation made it clear that sacred ceremonies should only be led by Native American people who have completed the...

Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native...