An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”
“An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”,” an Outcome archive entry by Steven J. Schwartzberg. 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 Steven J. Schwartzberg urges Americans to overturn Federal Indian Law by confronting the colonial assumptions that still shape U.S. jurisprudence now.. 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 The famous “Marshall trilogy”— Johnson v. Mclntosh , Cherokee Nation v. Georgia , and Worcester v. Georgia —is repugnant to the written Constitution of the United States as well as to the international laws and usages that have been a part of life on Turtle Island (this continent) since millennia before the first eurochristians invaded and which still constitute the true unwritten constitution of this land and the deepest legitimate source of “the law.” Rooted in that licentious hybrid of fifteenth century religious jurisprudence and ethnonationalism known as the doctrine of Christian discovery, the “Marshall trilogy” established a legal framework that has systematically denied to the peoples of the Native Nations their. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.
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Adam DJ Brett, "An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”," Doctrine of Discovery Project (16 April 2026), https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/link/outcome/jcrt/issue2/schwartzberg/.
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