Ysidro Ramon Macias

The Red Road is the philosophy/religion of all the indigenous tribes throughout North and South America. It is a philosophy/religion grounded in the integration of the human with Mother Nature and the cosmos.The book has three goals: 1-introduce the Red Road, with three examples of the native worldview/philosophy/religion of the Red Nations pueblos of the Americas from Alaska to Chile; 2- assess the need for decolonization from the European heritage in Mexico and the United States; and 3-provide an outline to create your own Red Road.The book is specifically aimed at the Chicano community, but the Red Road is open to any reader, regardless of ethnicity or nationality.The outlines and definitions of three native worldviews has never been published before, so it is information/knowledge of first impression.

The Domingo Martinez Paredez Mayan Reader is a translation of five of the major works of Martinez Paredez, a Mayan Indian born in 1904 to a curandera mother. The five books translated are: "Un Continente y Una Cultura" (One Continent and One Culture); "Hunab K'u: Sintesis de Pensamiento Maya" (Hunab K'u: Synthesis of Mayan Philosophical Thought); " El Idioma Maya Hablado y el Escrito" (The Mayan Language Spoken vs. Written); "El Hombre y el Cosmos en el Mundo Maya" (Man and the Cosmos in the Mayan Worldview); and "El Popol Vuh Tiene Razon" (The Popol Vuh Has Reason). Martinez Paredez became a philologist who studies languages, and he was fluent in Nahuatl, as well as his native Yucatec Mayan and the K'iche and Kakchiquel Mayan languages of Guatelmala. Professor of Mayan Studies at Mexico's national university, the UNAM; his voice was a native voice, with a native perspective, much different than the rest of the academic world which follows the European version. His mastery of the native languages and his culture enabled him to plumb the depth of the meaning of their words, and thus reveal to the modern world how the Mayan and other natives visualized themselves; as part of Mother Nature, subject to her laws, and an integral part of the evolutionary cosmos through the integration of his Father, the Sun. Martinez Paredez thus arguably is the most brilliant philosophical native American author who has published in either of the Americas, with all his works only in Spanish. These English translations were consistently made in the native tradition by the Chicano author, whose maestro was the Mexica capitan-general de la danza, Andres Segura Granados, and whose Mayan maestro was Domingo Martinez Paredez. Ysidro Macias' previous books are: "The Compassion of the Feathered Serpent: A Chicano Worldview" and "Walking the Red Road on Chicanismo."

When one "Walks the Red Road, this refers to the native worldview of the Americas, distinct from Christianity or any other religion. The Red Road is the worldview of the thousands of native pueblos from Alaska to Chile. This book chronicles the practical and philosophical Chicano/Mexican version of this Red Road. Also included are three Chicano theater identity plays and an appendix by a Mayan philosopher on the calendar wheel.