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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 1681336, member: 45&quot;]Mana Pottery is not Native American.&nbsp; It was a corporation started by Immanuel Trujillo, and now headed by Anne Zapf and Matthew Kent, none of whom is Native American. </p><p><br /></p><p>The corporation operates a factory producing the pottery, which funds the Peyote Way Church whose sole function is to promote the use of peyote.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mana was not a member of any tribe. His background is vague. He was born to an unwed teen mother, and adopted by a family in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He was raised as James Coyle. Although it is sometimes claimed that his father was an &quot;Apache&quot; Indian, that is unclear. It was never proven to the point that he could claim membership in any Apache tribe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Confusion comes because he sometimes wrote &quot;Apache&quot; on his pots. It supposedly referred to the town of Apache, Arizona, where he lived, not to tribal affiliation, since there was none.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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