Inside MKP

A collection of internal documents, presentations, emails, and other content that reveal MKP's behavior, including its Lodge Keepers Society. The impacts on Indigenous peoples and individuals are also addressed. Many of these items were censored by MKP leadership and were previously inaccessible to its members and the general public.

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...

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...

Censored presentation about cultural misappropriation in MKP

Several members of MKP were invited in 2021 to present to the North America Leader Body of MKP about why cultural appropriation in MKP is...

A rebuttal of the "Lodge Keepers Society" story about having permission to violate the declarations

This document was submitted to SPIRIT for publication by a group of MKP members. It is a detailed rebuttal of the public explanation...

Indigenous MKP leader's video on how MKP inappropriately uses traditional sweat lodges...

Chance Taureau is the only currently active MKP Full Leader who is also Indigenous. He describes how MKP uses a sweat lodge ceremony of...

Presentation to MKP Cultural Appropriation Council about the use of Indigenous Ceremony, 2022

In 2021 an internal committee was formed to consider issues of cultural appropriation, but even after thousands of volunteer hours and...

Email from an Indigenous MKP leader about cultural appropriation

A letter from an Indigenous man who is a "Full Leader" in MKP's rank system, and an MKP International Board member, about cultural...

2019 Executive Summary of Cultural Appropriation in MKP

A detailed report about cultural appropriation in MKP was prepared in 2019. This is the executive summary. The full report cannot be...

Indigenous men of MKP declare independence

In 2022, a group of Indigenous men formally declared independence from MKP, so that MKP isn't telling them how to conduct ceremony, etc.

Questions for the Lodge Keepers Society "Headmen"