This is a non-comprehensive list, organized in no particular order, of manifestos that have inspired us to think about Indigenous resistance.
"Spirit Visions" by Ashinaabe hip hop artist, Q-Rock.
- Taiaiake Alfred’s Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto
- Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.
- Eric Cheyfitz’s, “What Is a Just Society? Native American Philosophies and the Limits of Capitalism's Imagination: A Brief Manifesto”
- Manifesto of the Combahee River Collective, a Black, Feminist, Lesbian organization active in late 70s in Boston.
- The Black Panther Party's ten-point program.
- MANA's platform of unity. MANA is a movement-building organization that works for Hawaiian independence in various forms, grounded in the Hawaiian political value of aloha ʻāina.
- Dr. Maria Root’s Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage.
- “Towards a New Oceania” by Sāmoan writer, poet, and teacher Albert Wendt in MANA Review vol. 1, no. 1, 1976.
- Manifesto Antropofago (Cannibal Manifesto) written in 1928 by Oswald de Andrade, a Brazilian poet. While controversial, it is an early attempt at indigenous writing that engages multiple disciplines through satirical interplays and bicultural languaging. It appeared as a post-colonial response to trends in psychology (Freudian totemism and taboo) and anthropology (cannibalism debate) and the identity politics of nationalist movements. Andrade is a member of the Tupi tribe and is known for cannibalizing Shakespeare in his manifesto, quoting Hamlet: tupi or not tupi, that is the question.
- James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time
- Malcolm X’s “Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity” Full text of the speech available here.
- David Walker’s “Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World”
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