For twenty-eight years, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have evolved beyond their beginnings as yet another 1980s alternative band giving voice to its generation's disaffected youth into a modern symbol (among others) of tribal identity for displaced Native Americans. These young Native people span communities both on and off reservations and reserves and are scattered across the United States and Canada. In a society that reflects few American Indian cultural icons, this band, and in particular their part-Mohican lead singer/actor, has become one of the modern epicenters of cultural identity, preservation, and solidarity that has pulled Native North American youth from the late 1970s forward. And unlike other Native American icons, ranging from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show of the late nineteenth century to the counterculture movement/American Indian Movement of the 1960s, this band and specifically their lead singer have not been manipulated in the same manner by the dominant society to distort the image of American Indians through pop-cultural colonialism. In this article, the author specifically examines Kicking Bear's ties to the Wild West Shows, John Trudell's relationship to the 1960s/1970s counterculture movement and AIM, and Anthony Kiedis's role in the 1980s/1990s counterculture movement and his current icon status. The author's main objective is to further illuminate modern movements and/or "Show Indians" through the lens of Generation X/Generation Y and their American Indian participants with the lead singer of the band the Red Hot Chili Peppers as the primary focus. (Contains 76 notes.)