The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain

“The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain,” an Outcome archive entry by Wendy Felese. The entry belongs to the jcrt collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses Felese challenges conquest based land values and shows Indigenous relational worldviews offer life affirming alternatives to extraction and alienation. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including A powerful idealized cognitive metaphor related to conquest and dominance paired with ideological commitments to individual human rights frame the dominant way of assessing and valuing land in what is now the United States. By examining this correlation, it becomes possible to challenge hegemonic assumptions that have become so commonsensical they are rarely seen for what they are – imaginative constructs. By illuminating the connection, we can envision and mobilize traditional Indigenous ways of being that are life affirming and offer an alternative to reckless acquisition and alienation from all our relatives. Download Citation RIS Format CSL JSON Format archive context Indigenous sovereignty legal history religious analysis land memory accountability public scholarship canonical record archive context Indigenous sovereignty. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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