Steven T. Newcomb

Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is the co-founder and director of the Indigenous Law Institute, and author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (Fulcrum, 2008). He co-produced the documentary movie “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” (2015), which is based on Pagans and his four decades of research.

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On September 23, 2026, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) filed an amicus curiae brief in the D.C. Circuit on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians and the Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, supporting the Tohono O’odham Nation’s effort to stop construction of a border wall section on its reservation. In this post from The Domination Chronicles, Steven T. Newcomb asks how a court is informed by a brief that affirms Native nations as “independent political societies” while also relying on federal doctrines that presume their subordination.

Read the full post on Steven Newcomb’s Substack: https://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/a-comment-on-narfs-amicus-curiae

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Steven T. Newcomb, "A Comment On NARF’s Amicus Curiae Brief Filed on Behalf of the National Congress of American Indians and the Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, LLC, in Support of the Tohono O’odham Nation," Doctrine of Discovery Project (5 October 2026), https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/link/narf-amicus-curiae-comment/.

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