Emmanuel Trujillo

Emmanuel Trujillo (May 25, 1930 – June 24, 2010), also known by the pseudonyms Mana Truhill and Immanuel Pardeahtan Trujillo, was an American anti-Nazi spy and peyotist of Chiricahua Apache descent.

After serving in the British Merchant Navy and the U.S. Army, he came into contact with the Native American Church. In the early 1950s, he infiltrated the National Renaissance Party (NRP), a neo-Nazi movement led by James Madole, on behalf of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League (NSANL). He rose through the ranks of the NRP until he led several sectors, before being expelled in 1954.

In 1977, he founded the Peyote Way Church of God in Klondyke, Arizona, a syncretic organization blending peyotism with elements of the Latter Day Saint movement, within which he advocated for unrestricted access to peyote for religious use regardless of race. He was also the founder of Mana Earthenware, a pottery studio whose pieces are included in the Smithsonian Institution's Native American collections.

Biography

Background Emmanuel Pardeahtan Trujillo was born on May 25, 1930, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the son of a Catholic mother of French-German descent and of Juan Pardeahtan Trujillo, a Chiricahua Apache from Mexico and an alleged member of Geronimo's tribe. His father died shortly after his birth, and his mother, then 14 years old, abandoned him. He spent his first two years in an orphanage before being adopted by an Irish Catholic family in the eastern United States under the name James J. Coyle. in continuation of the Church of Holy Light. It was officially registered as a nonprofit organization in 1981.