Our latest episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast is now live, and it’s one you won’t want to miss. Hosts Philip P. Arnold and Sandy Bigtr...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction Jake Haiwhagai’i Edwards and Dr. Philip P. Arnold examine the ecological and ...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction Susan Brewer (Sloan Lecture) traces the history of the “best land” — a tract ...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction Travis Bowman and Matthew Zembo join Lisa Moore to expose how military strate...
In this episode, Kimberly Carfore explores ecofeminist theology and its connections to the Doctrine of Discovery, examining how dominionist interpretations o...
In this episode, Jeannine Hill Fletcher confronts how white Christian institutions cultivated racial hierarchy—through indoctrination, forced conversion, mar...
The Doctrine of Discovery Initiative announces the launch of a 15-part extended essay examining how the Doctrine of Discovery has shaped U.S. legal history t...
U.S. v. King Mountain Tobacco (2012) asserted federal excise tax authority over Yakama Nation based on plenary power doctrine.
McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) upheld Creek Nation jurisdiction while affirming federal plenary power based on the Doctrine of Discovery.
Onondaga Nation’s lawsuit to recover ancestral lands was dismissed using federal Indian law doctrines based on discovery and domination.
Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida (2010) examined equitable defenses used to bar Native land claims spanning centuries.
Cayuga Nation v. Pataki (2005) explored Haudenosaunee land claims and the suppressed 1922 Everett Report on Native treaty rights.
UC professors attempted to prevent repatriation of Kumeyaay Nation ancestral remains, invoking tribal sovereignty immunity doctrines.
Tee Hit Ton v. U.S. (1955) denied Native peoples compensation for lands taken by the U.S. government under the Doctrine of Discovery.
Teddy Roosevelt’s 1904 Monroe Doctrine Corollary asserted U.S. imperial dominion over the Western Hemisphere and its indigenous peoples.
Martin v. Waddell (1842) applied the Doctrine of Discovery to oyster beds, asserting European discovery gave absolute property rights.
The Monroe Doctrine (1823) extended U.S. claims of ‘ultimate dominion’ over the Western Hemisphere, following the Doctrine of Discovery.
The 1832 Worcester v. Georgia ruling protected Native nations from state laws, yet affirmed federal domination under the Doctrine of Discovery.
In 1831, the Cherokee Nation sought Supreme Court protection from Georgia’s laws designed to annihilate their political existence.
The 1823 landmark Johnson v. McIntosh case established the Doctrine of Discovery as U.S. law, denying Native nations’ property rights.
The Fletcher v. Peck case examined whether the U.S. courts would recognize Indian title to land, and how colonial charters justified domination.
How did the U.S. justify ‘ultimate dominion’ over Native nations and lands? This series examines the Doctrine of Discovery in Supreme Court rulings.
Abstract Since the publication of Pagans in the Promised Land by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), scholarship on the Doctrine of Discovery has expanded si...
What is a way forward in the midst of the environmental and ecological crisis? How does religious studies engage with Indigenous Peoples? Philip P. Arnold...
Abstract The Onondaga Nation is petitioning the Organization of American States (OAS) for land rights to Onondaga Lake, a notoriously polluted body of water ...
In short, neither this book nor the Skä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center would have been possible without the groundbreaking work of Charles Long and the Hist...
Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery: A Wakaga Sovereignty Series is a multi-article initiative by the Wakaga Economic Development Group examining ho...
In 2022 Syracuse University received a Henry Luce Foundation grant to support the work of Philip P. Arnold and the Indigenous Values Initiative’s Doctrine...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Special Episode This episode is a live recording of The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, T...
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Part 1 Gomeroi Native Title - Living in the Shadow of Terra Nullius Santos NSW Pty Ltd and Another v Gomeroi People and Another [2025] NNTTA 12 Abstract Ex...
Abstract On June 15, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Haaland v. Brackeen, withholding the constitutionality of the 1978 Indian Child ...
Abstract The following article discusses the UN Special Interim Report and its significance to the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The article reviews how the...
Abstract Remarks delivered at the forum “Freedom of Religion or Belief for Indigenous Peoples: The 2022 UN Report,” at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union ...
Abstract This succinct essay addresses the issue of freedom of religion for Indigenous cultures. Freedom of belief cannot subsist without justice, i.e. equa...
Abstract In this essay, we will argue that firstly, the international and national legal framings of religion or belief are limited in scope, and one must a...
Abstract This article takes as its point of departure the 2022 Interim Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, ent...
Comments delivered as part of the “Virtual Consultation on Legal Framework: Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief,” held June 22,...
The present report is the input provided by the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI) and American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) in response to the new report draf...
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, initiates a critical conversation within the United Nations sy...
Abstract The Office of the External Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom or Belief contacted Philip P. Arnold, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), an...
Abstract The second issue of volume five of the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR) is a special issue, From Indigenous ‘Religions’ to...
Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future:The Quest for Justice Details Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse Come c...
Join us for a deep dive into The Doctrine of Discovery film and uncover the hidden truths behind the Domination Code in our live Q&A session Register No...
Indigenous values challenge our frameworks of law and spirituality. Are we ready to listen? Dive into our latest episode and let’s discuss the future of sacr...
In his address during the Erie Canal Centennial Celebration in 1926, Dr. John H. Finley remarked that the Canal’s economic benefits, though immense, were ...
What a delight to read Steve Featherstone’s feature article about the long-overdue return of 1,000 acres in the Tully Valley to the Onondaga Nation. Hearing ...
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery is a series of fifteenth-century papal bulls that served as the theological and legal justification for the colonization ...
Onondaga Creek, muddied by more than 100 years of pollution, may soon flow with a renewed glimmer under the care of its original protectors, the Onondaga Nat...
Steve Newcomb Talks With Peter d’Errico.
Steve Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) and Peter d'Errico continue a decades-long conversation about Indigenous Peoples. Their discussion includes the following to...
This Special Issue invites submissions that interrogate the intersection between race, religion, and nationalism in the 21st century. Submissions might explo...
Sitting amid this background before a congressional hearing, Reagan’s secretary of the interior James G. Watt was asked if he would protect wildernesses for...
Indigenous Sovereignty and Colonial Frameworks: A Comparative Analysis of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia Indigenous resistance to colonial framewo...
_As our people march upon government to call for the honouring of our treaty, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the words of Moana Jackson are more poignant, and powerf...
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on faith, nationalism, and Indigenous sovereignty. Special guest Steve Schwartzberg shares insights on historica...
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The New England Yearly Meeting of Friends (NEYM), Quaker embarked on a several year work to meet Secretary Haaland’s request for religious bodies to look a...
I’m grateful to my friend and colleague John Grim and the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology for the podcast on Spotlights about my book The Urgency of Ind...
Onondaga Nation – On Sunday, October 13, 2024, join Onondaga community members, Tsha’ Thoñ’nhes management, We of Italian and Syracuse Heritage in CNY, and N...
Miller, Robert J. “The International Law of Colonialism: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Discovery Applied Worldwide.” Tribal Law Journal 23, 1 (2024...
Unpack the transformative power of indigenous knowledge and its impact on modern politics with Philip Deloria. From colonialism to Native sovereignty, this e...
Dive into the history of religious freedom in the U.S. with Winifred Sullivan! Explore the intersection of faith, law, and indigenous influences shaping Amer...
Beginning in 2014, University Chancellor Kent Syverud initiated several measures honoring the Haudenosaunee. One of the measures is the University’s polic...
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I watch and wonder if we are witnessing the (re)birth of a distinctly American religion. One that shares a kinship and affinity with prior permutations of...
Remember, if it’s starting to get heated, step out and take a breather, you can always have the kōrero again another day. TLDR: It’s ok to be Christian, i...
Anti-Micronesian bias and colonialism are harming efforts to protect and manage waters surrounding U.S. overseas territories in the Pacific Islands. The B...
Newsflash: Property law in the U.S. is not rooted in the Constitution. America’s legal foundation for property law (possession), “anti-Indian l...
While Britain’s American Colonies grew, Native American tribes became increasingly reliant on European powers for trade goods, especially metal objects and f...
Having been given an exciting opportunity to project manage the cataloguing of the Carleton Papers (record series PRO 30/55), since September 2016 I have ...
In North America, it’s often assumed that private land ownership not only existed in colonizing cultures but was also universally accepted. Yet English co...
In 2016 the Vatican, recognizing the need to understand Indigenous religious protocols, invited Indigenous spiritual leaders from around the world to Rome. ...
Why is it important? The Doctrine of Discovery is still an important legal concept in Canada today even though it was written hundreds of years ago. Both Fr...
Newsflash! Property law in the U.S. is not rooted in the Constitution. America's legal foundation for property law (possession), "anti-Indian law" and the ...
“Kind colonialism” operates on the false idea that colonisation is necessary, beneficial, and inevitable. The reason it became the dominant form of colonisa...
ANNOUNCEMENT Artists’ Book Release Details In the Court of the Conqueror featuring Patty Ortiz with George Emilio Sanchez Curator & Editor, Cydney P...
this thesis analyze the perceptions of the Doctrine of Discovery, a religious principle incorporated into law during the Age of Discovery among people wit...
Translation differences between this new translation and Davenport’s occur more often in tone than in content. Of the latter, the most important is probab...
“Our nation’s history is rife with such injustices. It is no victory to sanitize the past, but there is a difference between erasing history and redressin...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this podcast episode, ...
What’s a 15th-century statement from a pope have to do with U.S. land policy today? In this conversation, Amanda Henderson and Steven Newcomb dive deeper in...
Sandy Bigtree & Philip Arnold - The Religious Origins of White Supremacy Today’s discussion is one of profound importance, and I am honored to spea...
The conversation I am much more interested in, and that I feel is important to have – is an open, and frank conversation about the role Christianity has p...
Bossen, C. (2024). Political theology, discovery and the roots of the ‘great replacement’. Race & Class, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968241238601.
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and ...
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this episode of the Mapping The Doctrine Of Discovery Podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and ...
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this podcast episode, hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Joel Harrison, an...
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. This podcast episode is a recording of Law Panel III Federal Anti-Indian Law from the con...
By William D. Sunderlin, Ph.D., and Robert J. Miller, J.D. ALBANY, New York | PHOENIX, Arizona | 16 April 2024 (IDN) &emdash; It seems ridiculous that a...
Civilization and personhood are the intellectual bulwarks for the justification of colonization. The colonizer assumes they are made in the image of their...
Beginning in 2014, University Chancellor Kent Syverud initiated several measures honoring the Haudenosaunee. One of the measures is the University’s polic...
But questions nagged at me: When colonized people participate in the politics of their colonizer, does that signify the end of colonialism or its successful...
From Land Theft To Land Back The OAS And The Onondaga Nation Land Rights Action This panel, including Tadodaho Sidney Hill, will review the history of inten...
We invite everyone to visit the Indigenous Peoples Craft Fair on 17 April 2024 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM on the Eighth Floor of the Church Center of the United...
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The Supreme Court now avoids naming the doctrine, as if that makes the problem go away. Hester concludes that the labyrinth of “inherent and retained...
Do you ever wonder how land comes to be privately owned? I wonder all the time. It’s the whole reason for this newsletter. I’m interested in other forms o...
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The “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” podcast—produced in collaboration with Syracuse University and Indigenous Values Initiative—explores how a 15th-century...
Ithaca, NY- On Sunday, Feb 4th, over 400 Haudenosaunee and US citizens celebrated Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga) culture, the local traditional community, and the...
Keywords: Settler colonialism, higher education, land grant, the Whipple Report, Onondaga Nation, Syracuse University Introduction In this article, I exami...
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As I reflected on the discussions, I realized that without action, valuable Indigenous knowledge becomes an extracted resource often at the benefit of non...
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I wanted to get some thoughts written in a place where I could share them, but this post only scratches the surface of what I heard and experienced. One ...
In the 1823 decision of Johnson v. M’Intosh, Chief Justice John Marshall formulated the international law of colonialism. Known as the Doctrine of Discovery,...
Ilianna Murphy, a junior at Simpson College who attended the conference, said her biggest takeaway is the importance of listening more to Indigenous people a...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this podcast episode, Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Victor Valle, an author a...
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St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Newcastle, Maine 17th Sunday after Pentecost September 24, 2023 Living into Christ’s Great Commandment, Our Bapt...
Robert is discussing the ideas of discovery and control of land through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The Doctrine of Discovery is a legal and religious concept that has been used for centuries to justify Christian colonial conquest. It advanced the idea t...
Creating spaces like that of the AMC AfroFeministFutures panel will allow Black feminists to reflect on the legacy of Black feminism, and what futures can lo...
The Doctrine of Discovery (DoD, sometimes called the Doctrine of Christian Domination) is considered a major root of settler colonialism globally. The DoD is...
Let us set the context for this discussion. The context begins with the free existence of our Native nations and peoples, extending back to the beginnin...
Philip P Arnold, a professor of religious studies at Syracuse University and the founding director of Skä·noñh — Great Law of Peace Center, was interviewed o...
Indigenous women from around Africa arrived to traditionally Native land bases that were often in turmoil. If the Indigenous nations of the place were able t...
The repudiation, which came in a statement from a bureaucratic office, not Pope Francis himself, said the doctrine had been “manipulated” by colonizers “to j...
50 miles from Charleston, South Carolina, is the mouth of the Combahee River, named for the Indigenous people of the place. It was home to numerous plantatio...
Offical Program Download PDF Introduction Two workshops 24 and 30/31 May 2023 A joint initiative by: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious...
Conventional wisdom holds that the Doctrine of Discovery originated with a series of papal bulls issued by several 15th-Century popes. But it is unlikely tha...
Introduction The Philippines has over 14-17 million remaining Indigenous peoples belonging to an estimated 110 ethnolinguistic communities (between 10-20% o...
por Betty Lyons, Sandra Bigtree y Philip Arnold English Español Cuando el Vaticano finalmente se dé cuenta de que está sumido en el lodo genocida de siglo...
Given that this interpretive work involves words and ideas, and not physical puzzle pieces, we as Native scholars face an interesting challenge: How do we...
Please join us for panel discussion with Philip P. Arnold, Tupac Enrique Acosta, Sandy Bigtree, Joe Heath, Betty Lyons, Tina Ngata. Details Christian Dom...
The presentation of the settlements process as a means for settling the grievances caused by violations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi has more problematic reper...
How did the world come to be? How did humans come to be? What is the origin of all living beings? The myth-history of who we are begins with the creation sto...
When the Vatican finally comes to the realization it is mired in the genocidal mud of centuries of racist exploitation of Indigenous peoples around the world...
English Portugese Spanish Resumo Apesar de ser um instrumento de colonização e imperialismo mundial, a importância e influência da Doutrina da Descoberta...
English Portugese Spanish Resumen A pesar de ser un instrumento de la colonización global y del imperialismo, la importancia y la influencia de la Doctri...
English Portugese Spanish Abstract Despite being a tool of colonization and imperialism worldwide, the Doctrine of Discovery’s importance and influence h...
Johnson v. M’Intosh established the precedent that the federal government of the United States had the sole right to negotiate with and extinguish indigenous...
This international law, called the Doctrine of Discovery today, is made up of ten distinct elements. Common law courts dissect crimes and torts into their un...
The conference will take place at Syracuse University from 8-10 December 2023.
CEMANAHUAC Superseding the Doctrine of Discovery: World Water One www.www.www Ten years since the First Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Internationa...
Johnson v. M’Intosh was a land dispute, where multiple parties brought competing claims of title. Marshall boiled the case down to one question: can an In...
”[Tonya] Gonella Frichner, Robert Williams, Jr., Joseph J. Heath, and Peter P. d’Errico have sounded a clarion call for the rescinding and repudiating of ...
Abstract The case against Resolution Copper’s proposed mine in Oak Flat is an unprecedented opportunity for reckoning with the American ideal of religious f...
Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century term designating an expansionist ideology grounded in the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and republican ideals that...
Ten years since the First Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery International Conference held at Arizona State University West on April 19-20, 2013, the C...
English imperial adventurism did not begin with Alexander. It began with [King] Henry [VII] skirting or directly contradicting Inter caetera. Henry would not...
In this light, I fear that the Brackeen lawsuit is the first in a row of dominoes — if the Court strikes down ICWA, everything else could soon go with it....
The Doctrine of Discovery (DoD) has a well-documented and researched connection to the colonization of Turtle Island. Its ideology, however, reaches far beyo...
Johnson’s Lessee v. M’Intosh is an 1823 United States Supreme Court decision that serves as a hinge moment in the legal conquest of Native Americans. The ...
One of the striking features of chief justice John Marshall’s articulation of the Doctrine of Discovery is the assertion that Indigenous sovereignty and r...
Chief Justice Marshall constructed federal anti-Indian law in three early nineteenth-century cases. First came Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), a property law ...
In 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall based the supposed right of colonizing forces to dominate and take ownership of the land on what he viewed as the nat...
A Canopy Forum Thematic Series March – April 2023 Produced through a partnership between Canopy Forum, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), and Syracu...
On September 8, 2021 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) voted to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery by adopting Motion 048, now Resolu...
The Chilean political class that converges in the Chamber of Deputies and Senators, not only continue to act in the “old political doctrine of denial of t...
Democracy: “Democracy didn’t come across on the Mayflower. Indeed not. Nor with the Niña nor Santa Maria. Certainly not. Democracy was here. It was in ful...
Consent is a fundamental Indigenous right that exists in a reciprocal relationship with all other Indigenous rights. However, the role of consent is especial...
The European doctrine of discovery principle, recognized as recently as 1986 by a federal district court as a legal fiction, nevertheless remains one of the ...
This shameful, land mark decision by the Supreme Court was issued just three weeks after the filing of the Onondaga Nation’s Land Rights Action. It was a rem...
It was an ordinary evening on October 9, 2018 when, scrolling down my mouse wheel randomly looking at posts on Facebook something suddenly caught my attentio...
Nations formulate doctrines that define and guide their relations toward other nations. The Monroe Doctrine, and the Truman, Carter, and Bush Doctrines are A...
Joseph Story is regarded as a genius and a giant in the legal profession. His continuing influence on American law was demonstrated for me some years ago whe...
In our journey of dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery and its horrible legacy, there is a recurring argument from the Catholic church and its supporters, t...
“They severed our tongues so we couldn’t speak our language then punished us for not being able to speak it.” - Tadodaho
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The bull Sublimis Deus was not retroactive. It could not be projected back in time. It could not remove the death, destruction, and dehumanization that th...
In the Two Row Wampum, an agreement between two peoples, the Dutch were the first Europeans to sit down and negotiate with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, ...
Fund the Onondaga Nation School Act Now to Support Indigenous Schools New York State has consistently underfunded the three schools serving Indigenous st...
Since the doctrine of discovery has been institutionalized in U.S. Indian law and policy for generations, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, the question a...
‘What is the United States position with respect to its 1863 treaty with the Western Shoshone Indians?’
Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) Prior to the invasion of this continent (“North America”) by representatives of the monarchs of Western Christendom, the o...
The idea that Chief Wahoo is somehow honoring Indigenous peoples and his removal is cancel culture is not only absurd but is the reinforcement of the mind...
We should note that from the perspective of Native Americans, religious freedom has never been a good tool.
To really understand the American landscape, you need to know about the Doctrine of Discovery. As a set of principles used to justify European colonizatio...
Whether the intent of domination expressed by that language is part of “official Church teachings” is irrelevant in my view. What is relevant is that, thr...
Watch Now Now Streaming Details The iconic film The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code is now streaming on Vimeo. You can rent or purchase...
Archbishop Cordileone said his ceremony was intended to drive out evil and defend the image of Serra.
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination comprises a worldview and promotes the legal and moral authority justifying the invasion and conquest of n...
Robert J Miller, Professor of Law in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University gave a lecture entitled “Indigenous Peoples, Internat...
Members of the Mennonite Missions Network attended Mother Earth’s Pandemic: The Doctrine of Discovery conference and did some post events writeup
What better time than now to consider the ancient wisdom of our ancestors who, for thousands of years, sustained a more equitable way of living in proper rel...
Federal Indian law displaces the historical ‘starting point’ — the original free existence of Native nations…
Download PDF The McGirt decision upholds a principle of US domination of Native Nations By Steven T. Newcomb and Peter d’Errico Commentary after the McGir...
Beneath glowering portraits of Balboa, Cortez and other Spanish conquistadors, Mr. Newcomb pored over the familiar Latin phrases, many of which he’d memor...
For decades, Indigenous peoples have demanded the Holy See formally rescind the 15th century papal bulls, or decrees, that gave European kingdoms the reli...
With the majority of the country now joining forces with the Black Lives Matter Movement, we have a chance to pause and revisit a very important time in hist...
“Peace can only be attained when human beings live in proper relationship to the natural world” ~ Tadodaho
Featured speaker: Tupac Enrique Acosta, Tonatierra This foundational decolonization webinar addresses the Doctrine of Discovery, the intersection between in...
A Red Paper by Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force and American Indian Law Alliance. As we work together to attempt to save the Mother E...
As we head into the Academy Awards this weekend, we should visit Leonardo DiCaprio’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards on 10 January, which conclu...
Front cover of Haudenosaunee passport. Photograph: Sid Hill I’m a citizen of the six nation Haudenosaunee, commonly known as the Iroquois confederacy, one ...
When the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues convenes on May 7th in New York, native peoples around the world will turn their eyes to the mos...
Newcomb, Steven T. “The Evidence of Christian Nationalism in Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. McIntosh, and Plenary Power.” NYU Rev....
When I began teaching at the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1990, the prevailing wisdom in the academy was to avoid teaching “Native American Religion...
Our latest episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast is now live, and it’s one you won’t want to miss. Hosts Philip P. Arnold and Sandy Bigtr...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction Jake Haiwhagai’i Edwards and Dr. Philip P. Arnold examine the ecological and ...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction Susan Brewer (Sloan Lecture) traces the history of the “best land” — a tract ...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction Travis Bowman and Matthew Zembo join Lisa Moore to expose how military strate...
In this episode, Kimberly Carfore explores ecofeminist theology and its connections to the Doctrine of Discovery, examining how dominionist interpretations o...
In this episode, Jeannine Hill Fletcher confronts how white Christian institutions cultivated racial hierarchy—through indoctrination, forced conversion, mar...
Abstract Since the publication of Pagans in the Promised Land by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), scholarship on the Doctrine of Discovery has expanded si...
What is a way forward in the midst of the environmental and ecological crisis? How does religious studies engage with Indigenous Peoples? Philip P. Arnold...
Abstract The Onondaga Nation is petitioning the Organization of American States (OAS) for land rights to Onondaga Lake, a notoriously polluted body of water ...
In short, neither this book nor the Skä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center would have been possible without the groundbreaking work of Charles Long and the Hist...
Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery: A Wakaga Sovereignty Series is a multi-article initiative by the Wakaga Economic Development Group examining ho...
Abstract On June 15, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Haaland v. Brackeen, withholding the constitutionality of the 1978 Indian Child ...
Abstract The following article discusses the UN Special Interim Report and its significance to the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The article reviews how the...
Abstract Remarks delivered at the forum “Freedom of Religion or Belief for Indigenous Peoples: The 2022 UN Report,” at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union ...
Abstract This succinct essay addresses the issue of freedom of religion for Indigenous cultures. Freedom of belief cannot subsist without justice, i.e. equa...
Abstract In this essay, we will argue that firstly, the international and national legal framings of religion or belief are limited in scope, and one must a...
Abstract This article takes as its point of departure the 2022 Interim Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, ent...
Comments delivered as part of the “Virtual Consultation on Legal Framework: Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief,” held June 22,...
The present report is the input provided by the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI) and American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) in response to the new report draf...
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, initiates a critical conversation within the United Nations sy...
Abstract The Office of the External Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom or Belief contacted Philip P. Arnold, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), an...
Abstract The second issue of volume five of the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR) is a special issue, From Indigenous ‘Religions’ to...
Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future:The Quest for Justice Details Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse Come c...
Join us for a deep dive into The Doctrine of Discovery film and uncover the hidden truths behind the Domination Code in our live Q&A session Register No...
In his address during the Erie Canal Centennial Celebration in 1926, Dr. John H. Finley remarked that the Canal’s economic benefits, though immense, were ...
What a delight to read Steve Featherstone’s feature article about the long-overdue return of 1,000 acres in the Tully Valley to the Onondaga Nation. Hearing ...
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery is a series of fifteenth-century papal bulls that served as the theological and legal justification for the colonization ...
The Haudenosaunee are embarking on an historic project about the 500-year history of the Haudenosaunee, their relationship with Europe and America and their ...
Onondaga Creek, muddied by more than 100 years of pollution, may soon flow with a renewed glimmer under the care of its original protectors, the Onondaga Nat...
Steve Newcomb Talks With Peter d’Errico.
Steve Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) and Peter d'Errico continue a decades-long conversation about Indigenous Peoples. Their discussion includes the following to...
This Special Issue invites submissions that interrogate the intersection between race, religion, and nationalism in the 21st century. Submissions might explo...
Sitting amid this background before a congressional hearing, Reagan’s secretary of the interior James G. Watt was asked if he would protect wildernesses for...
Johnson v M’Intosh is an 1823 U.S. Supreme Court case about how the Discovery Doctrine was used to justify denying Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples’ l...
Join us for a review and analysis of Johnson v. M’Intosh on the 200th anniversary of the decision, presented via webinar on March 10, 2023 7:30 am - 2:30 p...
The fracturing of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its effort to decide Brakeen in 2021 demonstrates the deep confusion and contradiction (some say schi...
We have just been awarded a Henry Luce Grant for a 3 year project examining the religious dimensions of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.
And yet, all across Mother Earth, stories reverberate of Indigenous nations and peoples’ resistance and refusal in the face of the settler colonial state. We...
Significant aspects of this research were published in the New York University Review of Law & Social Change (Vol. 20, Number 2, 1993), “The Evidence of ...
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and ...
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this episode of the Mapping The Doctrine Of Discovery Podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and ...
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this podcast episode, hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Joel Harrison, an...
Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. This podcast episode is a recording of Law Panel III Federal Anti-Indian Law from the con...
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In this season of Sacred & Profane, we explore how religions have shaped the climate crisis — and how they offer ways to imagine a different future. ...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction In this podcast episode, hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Dr. D...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and Sa...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and Sa...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and Sa...
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Our guest is Onondaga Nation Turtle Clan Faithkeepr Oren Lyons.
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⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In our latest podcast episode, we embark on an enlightening journey with Rev. Dr. Brian...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Our conversation focuses on the dismantling of the Doctrine of Discovery and the profou...
Ngata highlights two helpful international elements of the Doctrine of Discovery. The first is the international legal principle, and the second is an ...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Moving into a discussion of Chief Justice John Marshall’s cases, including Johnson v M’...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe The episode begins with Miller offering a definition of the Doctrine of Discovery as th...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe The episode begins with Prof. Robertson providing the context for Johnson v. M’Intosh,...
Tupac Enrique Acosta, (Izkaloteka Mexica Azteca), TONATIERRA, One of the original conveners of the gathering of Tlahtokan Aztlan in 1984 in the O’otham Je...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 4 as a PDF // → Subscribe As Gloria Steinem says, Matilda Joslyn Gage was a woman ahead of her time. Wagner sees Ga...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 2 as a PDF // → Subscribe Steven T. Newcomb emphasizes that what undergirds the Doctrine of Discovery is a Christia...
After discussing how the Zócalo provides a snapshot of colonization, Arnold shifts the conversation to the History of Religions as a theory and method for un...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 1 as a PDF // → Subscribe We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. Our hosts Prof. Philip P. Arnold and ...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 0 as a PDF // → Subscribe We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. Our hosts Prof. Philip P. Arnold and S...
The Church of the Brethern has repuidated the Doctrine of Discovery
Baptist World Alliance’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
We understand that the majority of early Friends who settled on this continent were from Western Europe and held a Western European worldview of their relati...
Read the Uniting Church in Australia’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada in Mission For Others’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Presbyterian Church in Canada’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Canadian Friends Service Committee statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Mennonite statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Evangelical Church in Canada statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Community of Christ statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Evangelical Covenant Churches statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Roman Catholic Organization Statements Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Uniting Church in Sweden statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the ELCA’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Quakers statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
We repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, which asserted that lands belonged to the Christian powers that ‘discovered’ them.
WCC statement on the Doctrine of Discovery and its enduring impact on Indigenous Peoples.
A Unitarian Universalist Resolution To Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, and Implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Trail of Repentance And Healing.
Calling for the United Church of Christ to Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery Which Authorized the Genocide of Native Peoples and the Theft of Native Lands.
That the General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada, meeting, July 13-17, 2013, in Orlando, Florida, acce...
Minute on the Doctrine of Discovery, Approved July 25, 2012, New York Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions Silver Bay, New York
Pope Nicholas V first articulated the Doctrine of Discovery in the papal bull Dum Diversas in 1452. The Doctrine of Discovery consists of the idea that Chris...
Before we judge the papal edicts too harshly, we need to know of the Anglican connection to this Doctrine of Discovery.
…the Doctrine of Discovery consists of the idea that Christians have a right sanctioned by God to take non-Christian lands and property and assert political ...
That the 76th General Convention repudiates and renounces the Doctrine of Discovery as fundamentally opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our understand...
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on the Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery
A conversation on the doctrine of discovery will always entail a discussion of Native American or Indigenous lands. Moreover, because the doctrine has been a...
Anglican Church of Canada’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Christian Reformed Church statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
The Church of the Brethern has repuidated the Doctrine of Discovery
Baptist World Alliance’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
We understand that the majority of early Friends who settled on this continent were from Western Europe and held a Western European worldview of their relati...
Read the Uniting Church in Australia’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada in Mission For Others’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Presbyterian Church in Canada’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Canadian Friends Service Committee statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Mennonite statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Evangelical Church in Canada statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Community of Christ statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Evangelical Covenant Churches statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Roman Catholic Organization Statements Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Uniting Church in Sweden statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the ELCA’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Quakers statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Canadian lawmakers letter to the pope.
We repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, which asserted that lands belonged to the Christian powers that ‘discovered’ them.
WCC statement on the Doctrine of Discovery and its enduring impact on Indigenous Peoples.
A Unitarian Universalist Resolution To Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, and Implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Trail of Repentance And Healing.
Calling for the United Church of Christ to Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery Which Authorized the Genocide of Native Peoples and the Theft of Native Lands.
That the General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada, meeting, July 13-17, 2013, in Orlando, Florida, acce...
Minute on the Doctrine of Discovery, Approved July 25, 2012, New York Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions Silver Bay, New York
That the 76th General Convention repudiates and renounces the Doctrine of Discovery as fundamentally opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our understand...
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on the Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery
A conversation on the doctrine of discovery will always entail a discussion of Native American or Indigenous lands. Moreover, because the doctrine has been a...
Anglican Church of Canada’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly of the United Nations, we finally took our place at the tabl...
Read the Christian Reformed Church statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Tobacco company, owned by a Yakima Nation citizen, makes cigarettes using 54 % tobacco that is grown on allotted nation land, held in trust by US. The 9th Ci...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Doctrine of Discovery.
Since the doctrine of discovery has been institutionalized in U.S. Indian law and policy for generations, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, the question a...
The doctrine of discovery has continued to be the cornerstone of United States Indian law. A series of recent, disturbing decisions by the Supreme Court and ...
As promising as this decision is, deeply racist problems remain in US law.Left unsaid by Gorsuch was his, and the court’s, unquestioned acceptance of “plenar...
Resources mentioned durined the sessions.
Download PDF The McGirt decision upholds a principle of US domination of Native Nations By Steven T. Newcomb and Peter d’Errico Commentary after the McGir...
The Onondaga People wish to bring about a healing between themselves and all others who live in this region that has been the homeland of the Onondaga Nation...
Aboriginal interest in land generally is described as a tribe’s right to occupy the land.
This appeal is decided on the basis of the equitable bar on recovery of ancestral lands in Sherrill, and this Court’s cases of Cayuga and Oneida. Three speci...
We have used the term “laches” here, as did the district court and this Court in Cayuga, as a convenient shorthand for the equitable principles at stake in t...
the Indian tribes who have a right to those lands are quietly to enjoy them, hunting, planting and dwelling thereon so long as they please, without any moles...
We understand Sherrill to hold that equitable doctrines, such as laches, acquiescence, and impossibility, can in appropriate circumstances, be applied to Ind...
Every America schoolboy knows that the savage tribes of this continent were deprived of their ancestral ranges by force and that, even when the Indians ceded...
What is Indian title? It is a mere occupancy for the purpose of hunting. It is not like our tenures, they have no idea of a title to the soil itself. It i...
Resources from the ‘United States Indian Law Panel’ at the Taking on the Doctrine of Discovery, What are our Next Steps?
As bizarre as it may seem, today’s federal definitions of Indian title and Indian nationhood find their basis in the Old Testament covenant tradition. This t...
Albany Government Law Review Volume 10 Issues 1&2 2016-2017
Here are the 10 elements that I think constitute the Doctrine and are useful in analyzing and comparing how settler-colonizer societies have used this intern...
The purpose of this paper is to review the history of the use of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in United States Supreme Court decisions since 1823. It ...
Excerpts from President James Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823.
Roosevelt asserted that European nations should not intervene in countries to the south of the US, however under certain conditions, United States interventi...
By this public document, Henry VII indicated his official, royal support for Cabot’s enterprise.
The Treaty of Tordesillas was concluded on June 7 1494 to settle the contentious matter of the possession of the newly discovered lands of the non Christian ...
Preliminary study of the impact on indigenous peoples of the international legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery / submitted by the Special Rapp...
The Indians were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to...
Interestingly, despite over two centuries of difficulties in this area, in this historic agreement the state accepted the Haudenosaunee as Nations and used t...
The doctrine of discovery has continued to be the cornerstone of United States Indian law. A series of recent, disturbing decisions by the Supreme Court and ...
This article begins by raising a problem: when social change and justice issues are addressed, rarely are Indigenous nations and peoples considered.
Complete list of all of the talks and bonus content
As promising as this decision is, deeply racist problems remain in US law.Left unsaid by Gorsuch was his, and the court’s, unquestioned acceptance of “plenar...
Resources mentioned durined the sessions.
In JSRNC, independent scholar Joy Greenberg reviewed Pagans in the Promised Land and The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code.
Basic Call to Consciousness copies are available in English and Spanish.
The first Christian people to locate lands inhabited by non-Christians (‘infidels, heathens, and savages’) claimed the right to assert a right of domination ...
Resources from the ‘United States Indian Law Panel’ at the Taking on the Doctrine of Discovery, What are our Next Steps?
Replacing the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Doctrine of Discovery Short Film on Youtube The First Video in the Digital Wampum series
Films on the Doctrine of Discovery
The Doctrine of Discovery has had profoundly negative impacts on Indigenous Peoples for the last 500+ years. Governments and various organizations have used ...
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly of the United Nations, we finally took our place at the tabl...
The purpose of this paper is to review the history of the use of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in United States Supreme Court decisions since 1823. It ...
Preliminary study of the impact on indigenous peoples of the international legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery / submitted by the Special Rapp...
Interestingly, despite over two centuries of difficulties in this area, in this historic agreement the state accepted the Haudenosaunee as Nations and used t...
U.S. v. King Mountain Tobacco (2012) asserted federal excise tax authority over Yakama Nation based on plenary power doctrine.
McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) upheld Creek Nation jurisdiction while affirming federal plenary power based on the Doctrine of Discovery.
Onondaga Nation’s lawsuit to recover ancestral lands was dismissed using federal Indian law doctrines based on discovery and domination.
Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida (2010) examined equitable defenses used to bar Native land claims spanning centuries.
Cayuga Nation v. Pataki (2005) explored Haudenosaunee land claims and the suppressed 1922 Everett Report on Native treaty rights.
UC professors attempted to prevent repatriation of Kumeyaay Nation ancestral remains, invoking tribal sovereignty immunity doctrines.
Tee Hit Ton v. U.S. (1955) denied Native peoples compensation for lands taken by the U.S. government under the Doctrine of Discovery.
Teddy Roosevelt’s 1904 Monroe Doctrine Corollary asserted U.S. imperial dominion over the Western Hemisphere and its indigenous peoples.
Martin v. Waddell (1842) applied the Doctrine of Discovery to oyster beds, asserting European discovery gave absolute property rights.
The Monroe Doctrine (1823) extended U.S. claims of ‘ultimate dominion’ over the Western Hemisphere, following the Doctrine of Discovery.
The 1832 Worcester v. Georgia ruling protected Native nations from state laws, yet affirmed federal domination under the Doctrine of Discovery.
In 1831, the Cherokee Nation sought Supreme Court protection from Georgia’s laws designed to annihilate their political existence.
The 1823 landmark Johnson v. McIntosh case established the Doctrine of Discovery as U.S. law, denying Native nations’ property rights.
The Fletcher v. Peck case examined whether the U.S. courts would recognize Indian title to land, and how colonial charters justified domination.
How did the U.S. justify ‘ultimate dominion’ over Native nations and lands? This series examines the Doctrine of Discovery in Supreme Court rulings.
A Screening Of The Domination Code followed by an incredible panel discussion with Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota), Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), Buffy Sainte ...
In 1779, General George Washington suspended the colonial war against England and moved to extinguish the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois) with his “Sull...
Complete list of all of the talks and bonus content
As promising as this decision is, deeply racist problems remain in US law.Left unsaid by Gorsuch was his, and the court’s, unquestioned acceptance of “plenar...
Resources mentioned durined the sessions.
This conference will connect the dots between our current pandemic, environmental devastation, the Doctrine of Discovery, and a way forward.
A conference in Onondaga Nation Territory, at Syracuse University and Skä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center, Saturday and Sunday, 17-18 August 2019.
Like the rings of a tree, the record of our people, our indigenous truth, is carried in the bones of indigenous women, which we bear forth with every birth o...
Resources from the ‘United States Indian Law Panel’ at the Taking on the Doctrine of Discovery, What are our Next Steps?
2009 event archive ‘Roots of Peacemaking: Indigenous Values, Global Crisis’ is the first in an ongoing series of events that include conferences, cultural ex...
We will first to learn about the devastating impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery first hand from the Haudenosaunee, to understand its history, and then to s...
2014 conference photo gallery
Doctrine of Christian Discovery: After Repudiation, What Next? Conference May 24-25 2014 The Skä·noñh — Great Law of Peace Center.
This conference will connect the dots between our current pandemic, environmental devastation, the Doctrine of Discovery, and a way forward.
In CounterPunch, Shawnee/Lenape scholar Steve Newcomb connects anti-blackness and racism to the domination and dehumanization of the Doctrine of Discovery.
In JSRNC, independent scholar Joy Greenberg reviewed Pagans in the Promised Land and The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code.
The first Christian people to locate lands inhabited by non-Christians (‘infidels, heathens, and savages’) claimed the right to assert a right of domination ...
Replacing the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Doctrine of Discovery Short Film on Youtube The First Video in the Digital Wampum series
Films on the Doctrine of Discovery
Papal Bulls of the 15th century gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they ‘discovered’ and lay claim to those lands for their Christian Monarchs...
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly of the United Nations, we finally took our place at the tabl...
The purpose of this paper is to review the history of the use of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in United States Supreme Court decisions since 1823. It ...
Interestingly, despite over two centuries of difficulties in this area, in this historic agreement the state accepted the Haudenosaunee as Nations and used t...
In CounterPunch, Shawnee/Lenape scholar Steve Newcomb connects anti-blackness and racism to the domination and dehumanization of the Doctrine of Discovery.
In letter to Spanish king, President Obrador cites massacres and oppression during conquest of Mexico.
Doctrine of Discovery at the heart of the Saskatchewan Parks Case.
Reclaiming Native Truth’s research shows hope. For instance, it demonstrates that, when presented with a narrative that educates on the value of and values i...
Academics, attorneys and religious leaders from as far away as Chile gathered at this site sacred to members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to discuss the ...
" I think it’s something that people don’t really understand," observes Betty Lyons, President and Director of the American Indian Law Alliance. " They go a...
The way Steven T. Newcomb describes the Doctrine of Discovery these days is ‘a claim of a right of Christian domination.’ It was first expressed by Pope Nich...
2009 event archive ‘Roots of Peacemaking: Indigenous Values, Global Crisis’ is the first in an ongoing series of events that include conferences, cultural ex...
In a first-of-its-kind action in the Christian world, the national Episcopal Church has passed a landmark resolution repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery an...
Inspired by the actions of the Episcopal Church, a Quaker group has disavowed the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and voiced its support for the United Natio...
Indigenous delegates ask Pope to repudiate Doctrine of Discovery
Abstract The following article discusses the UN Special Interim Report and its significance to the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The article reviews how the...
Abstract Remarks delivered at the forum “Freedom of Religion or Belief for Indigenous Peoples: The 2022 UN Report,” at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union ...
Abstract This succinct essay addresses the issue of freedom of religion for Indigenous cultures. Freedom of belief cannot subsist without justice, i.e. equa...
Abstract In this essay, we will argue that firstly, the international and national legal framings of religion or belief are limited in scope, and one must a...
Abstract This article takes as its point of departure the 2022 Interim Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, ent...
Comments delivered as part of the “Virtual Consultation on Legal Framework: Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief,” held June 22,...
The present report is the input provided by the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI) and American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) in response to the new report draf...
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, initiates a critical conversation within the United Nations sy...
Abstract The Office of the External Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom or Belief contacted Philip P. Arnold, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), an...
Abstract The second issue of volume five of the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR) is a special issue, From Indigenous ‘Religions’ to...
Our guest is Onondaga Nation Turtle Clan Faithkeepr Oren Lyons.
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⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In our latest podcast episode, we embark on an enlightening journey with Rev. Dr. Brian...
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Ngata highlights two helpful international elements of the Doctrine of Discovery. The first is the international legal principle, and the second is an ...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Moving into a discussion of Chief Justice John Marshall’s cases, including Johnson v M’...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe The episode begins with Miller offering a definition of the Doctrine of Discovery as th...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe The episode begins with Prof. Robertson providing the context for Johnson v. M’Intosh,...
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In 2022 Syracuse University received a Henry Luce Foundation grant to support the work of Philip P. Arnold and the Indigenous Values Initiative’s Doctrine...
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Indigenous values challenge our frameworks of law and spirituality. Are we ready to listen? Dive into our latest episode and let’s discuss the future of sacr...
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on faith, nationalism, and Indigenous sovereignty. Special guest Steve Schwartzberg shares insights on historica...
Dive into Reclaiming Faith: Dismantling White Christian Supremacy and Healing Through Indigenous Spirituality with Soulforce!
Unpack the transformative power of indigenous knowledge and its impact on modern politics with Philip Deloria. From colonialism to Native sovereignty, this e...
Dive into the history of religious freedom in the U.S. with Winifred Sullivan! Explore the intersection of faith, law, and indigenous influences shaping Amer...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. In this podcast episode, ...
On the limits of Sublimis Deus (also called Sublimis Dei).
The Papal Bull Inter Caetera of May 4, 1493
Papal Bulls of the 15th century gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they ‘discovered’ and lay claim to those lands for their Christian Monarchs...
Spanish conquistadors read this document, composed in 1510, to Indians of the new world. It briefly explains Spain’s assertion of its legal and moral right t...
The Treaty of Tordesillas was concluded on June 7 1494 to settle the contentious matter of the possession of the newly discovered lands of the non Christian ...
Papal Bull Dum Diversas 18 June, 1452
The Bull Romanus Pontifex (Nicholas V) January 8, 1455
The Papal Bull Inter Caetera of May 4, 1493
Roman Catholic Organization Statements Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Indigenous delegates ask Pope to repudiate Doctrine of Discovery
Spanish conquistadors read this document, composed in 1510, to Indians of the new world. It briefly explains Spain’s assertion of its legal and moral right t...
The Treaty of Tordesillas was concluded on June 7 1494 to settle the contentious matter of the possession of the newly discovered lands of the non Christian ...
Papal Bull Dum Diversas 18 June, 1452
The Bull Romanus Pontifex (Nicholas V) January 8, 1455
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly of the United Nations, we finally took our place at the tabl...
The purpose of this paper is to review the history of the use of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in United States Supreme Court decisions since 1823. It ...
Indigenous delegates ask Pope to repudiate Doctrine of Discovery
An Indigenous Peoples’ Statement to the World Delivered at The Parliament of the World’s Religions Convened at Melbourne, Australia on the Traditional Lands ...
It was also suggested the report be a key advocacy tool for raising awareness on indigenous peoples’ issues in general and in particular to raise the profile...
Interestingly, despite over two centuries of difficulties in this area, in this historic agreement the state accepted the Haudenosaunee as Nations and used t...
Tupac Enrique Acosta, (Izkaloteka Mexica Azteca), TONATIERRA, One of the original conveners of the gathering of Tlahtokan Aztlan in 1984 in the O’otham Je...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 4 as a PDF // → Subscribe As Gloria Steinem says, Matilda Joslyn Gage was a woman ahead of her time. Wagner sees Ga...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 2 as a PDF // → Subscribe Steven T. Newcomb emphasizes that what undergirds the Doctrine of Discovery is a Christia...
After discussing how the Zócalo provides a snapshot of colonization, Arnold shifts the conversation to the History of Religions as a theory and method for un...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 1 as a PDF // → Subscribe We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. Our hosts Prof. Philip P. Arnold and ...
⤓ Download a transcript of Episode 0 as a PDF // → Subscribe We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement. Our hosts Prof. Philip P. Arnold and S...
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly of the United Nations, we finally took our place at the tabl...
The purpose of this paper is to review the history of the use of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in United States Supreme Court decisions since 1823. It ...
It was also suggested the report be a key advocacy tool for raising awareness on indigenous peoples’ issues in general and in particular to raise the profile...
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007
Interestingly, despite over two centuries of difficulties in this area, in this historic agreement the state accepted the Haudenosaunee as Nations and used t...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Introduction In this podcast episode, hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Dr. D...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and Sa...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and Sa...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and Sa...
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and Sa...
The Doctrine of Discovery Initiative announces the launch of a 15-part extended essay examining how the Doctrine of Discovery has shaped U.S. legal history t...
Miller, Robert J. “The International Law of Colonialism: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Discovery Applied Worldwide.” Tribal Law Journal 23, 1 (2024...
In 1988 the United States Supreme Court declared constitutional the federal government’s development plan in the High Country, aboriginal homeland of the Kar...
Read the Indian Boarding School Initiative document.
Creating spaces like that of the AMC AfroFeministFutures panel will allow Black feminists to reflect on the legacy of Black feminism, and what futures can lo...
The Doctrine of Discovery (DoD, sometimes called the Doctrine of Christian Domination) is considered a major root of settler colonialism globally. The DoD is...
Indigenous women from around Africa arrived to traditionally Native land bases that were often in turmoil. If the Indigenous nations of the place were able t...
50 miles from Charleston, South Carolina, is the mouth of the Combahee River, named for the Indigenous people of the place. It was home to numerous plantatio...
The 1832 Worcester v. Georgia ruling protected Native nations from state laws, yet affirmed federal domination under the Doctrine of Discovery.
In 1831, the Cherokee Nation sought Supreme Court protection from Georgia’s laws designed to annihilate their political existence.
The 1823 landmark Johnson v. McIntosh case established the Doctrine of Discovery as U.S. law, denying Native nations’ property rights.
Onondaga Nation’s lawsuit to recover ancestral lands was dismissed using federal Indian law doctrines based on discovery and domination.
Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida (2010) examined equitable defenses used to bar Native land claims spanning centuries.
Cayuga Nation v. Pataki (2005) explored Haudenosaunee land claims and the suppressed 1922 Everett Report on Native treaty rights.
With issuance of 15th century Papal Bulls known as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, religion has been used all over the world as a weapon against Indigen...
An Indigenous Peoples’ Statement to the World Delivered at The Parliament of the World’s Religions Convened at Melbourne, Australia on the Traditional Lands ...
Doctrine of Discovery Short Film on Youtube The First Video in the Digital Wampum series
Films on the Doctrine of Discovery
“They severed our tongues so we couldn’t speak our language then punished us for not being able to speak it.” - Tadodaho
“Peace can only be attained when human beings live in proper relationship to the natural world” ~ Tadodaho
Newcomb, Steven T. “The Evidence of Christian Nationalism in Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. McIntosh, and Plenary Power.” NYU Rev....
Pope Nicholas V first articulated the Doctrine of Discovery in the papal bull Dum Diversas in 1452. The Doctrine of Discovery consists of the idea that Chris...
Papal Bulls of the 15th century gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they ‘discovered’ and lay claim to those lands for their Christian Monarchs...
Papal Bulls of the 15th century gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they ‘discovered’ and lay claim to those lands for their Christian Monarchs...
As bizarre as it may seem, today’s federal definitions of Indian title and Indian nationhood find their basis in the Old Testament covenant tradition. This t...
A Red Paper by Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force and American Indian Law Alliance. As we work together to attempt to save the Mother E...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Doctrine of Discovery.
In our journey of dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery and its horrible legacy, there is a recurring argument from the Catholic church and its supporters, t...
In this season of Sacred & Profane, we explore how religions have shaped the climate crisis — and how they offer ways to imagine a different future. ...
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The Haudenosaunee are embarking on an historic project about the 500-year history of the Haudenosaunee, their relationship with Europe and America and their ...
The Doctrine of Discovery Initiative announces the launch of a 15-part extended essay examining how the Doctrine of Discovery has shaped U.S. legal history t...