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...
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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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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....
Is nothing sacred? Article from website aeon.co
https://aeon.co/essays/the-line-between-creativity-and-stealing-from-another-culture
Allyship & Solidarity Guidelines from the website "Unsettling America: Decolonization in Practice"
https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/allyship/
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, protect and develop manifestations of their cultures, such as artefacts, designs,...
The danger of a single story. TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her...
Looking Horse Proclamation on the Protection of Ceremonies
In 2003, this proclamation made it clear that sacred ceremonies should only be led by Native American people who have completed the...
America's native prisoners of war (TED talk)
Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native...
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