An Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Royal Supremacy

“An Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine,” an Outcome archive entry by Phillip Rodgers-Falk. 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 Phillip Rodgers Falk argues that native title and colonial sovereignty preserve Indigenous subordination through terra nullius and racial hierarchies.. 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 This paper traces the historical and legal evolution of sovereignty in relation to Indigenous land rights, exploring how colonial legal systems have sustained race based power structures through legal fictions such as terra nullius and res nullius . It argues that the colonial legal system has consistently framed Indigenous peoples as usufructuaries , entitled to the “use” of land but not ownership, while maintaining the ultimate sovereignty of the colonial state. The paper examines the conceptual parallels between Blackstone’s doctrine of occupancy, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), and the modern recognition of native title , particularly in Australia’s landmark Mabo v. Queensland (1992) decision. Occupancy and. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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