Roberto Mendoza This is a call for a new Indigenous movement for the 21st Century. We have evolved to a new understanding of our path of liberation. New visions and ideas are needed to move to a higher level and to coalesce into a new and more effective movement…

“For years I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions of society,”…“a little change here and a little change there, but now I feel differently. You have to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.” “We as a nation, must undergo a radical revolution…

How I, an Indigenous man was inspired by a line from MLK’s speech, Beyond Vietnam: “We, as a nation, must undergo a radical revolution of values.” In my years as a Indigenous Activist (Muscogee and Chicano), I learned some things. I no longer say that White people are the cause…

John and Helen are nineteen years old, walking slowly to the Chapel. John is wearing a trench coat, wool slacks. Helen is in a checkered dress, with black tights. They are immersed in each other’s presence. JOHN Have you read Alan Watts, The Way of Zen? Or Zen Flesh, Zen…

In 1970, I was living in a political commune in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. I lived with several other people in a house on Frederick street. Some of us were a part of the San Francisco Newsreel Collective and others were freelance radical and hippies. …

After spending time in the Bay Area, 1980s Its been unusually warm this January. Which is okay (for now), especially since I just spent the last 3 months in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. But now I am glad to back among my family and friends here in…

THE ROOM IN NEW YORK CITY, WINTER John eventually worked up the courage to return to New York City. He had a room on D Street, in the East Village. Drug addicts and Puerto Rican dealers lived in the dirty apartment building with him. …

Before colonization and assimilation, our Mvskoke (Muscogee) and Seminole people did not have ‘blood quantum’ as part of our way of life. We accepted all people into our tribes, as long as they accepted our values. Escaped slaves in Florida joined the Seminoles because, like us, they were tribal people…

I am an elder who has been in the Native movement since the Occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969. I now teach a seminar on Indigenous values. Christian values and Indigenous values are not the same. Our values underlie our spiritual ways. We did not believe in sky gods and…