Mindahi is the Founder and Convener of the Earth Elders and the General Coordinator of the Otomi-Toltec Regional Council in Mexico, a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec Peoples. He has been an Otomi-Toltec Ritual Ceremony Officer since 1988. He is also the President of the Mexico Council of Sustainable Development, a member of the Steering Committee of the Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative and has served as a delegate to several commissions and summits on indigenous rights and the environment including The Earth Summit 1992 and The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD, 2002). He is a member of the Executive Committee of Alliance Guardians of Mother Earth. Mindahi is also the author of the book Ancestors.