Repudiations
Repuidations of the Doctrine of Discovery by religious organizations and faith communities
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Haudenosaunee Democracy
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 ...
TEE-HIT-TON
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...
Fletcher v. Peck, 10 US 87 (1810)
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...
Haudenosaunee Host Doctrine of Discovery Gathering
" 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...
RNS article about the conference
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...
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 ...
‘United States Indian Law’ Panel
Resources from the ‘United States Indian Law Panel’ at the Taking on the Doctrine of Discovery, What are our Next Steps?
The Biblical Basis of Federal Indian Law Policy
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...
Resources by Peter d’Errico
Replacing the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Doctrine of Discovery Short Film
Doctrine of Discovery Short Film on Youtube The First Video in the Digital Wampum series
Native American Law in the Modern Era
Albany Government Law Review Volume 10 Issues 1&2 2016-2017
Roots of Peacemaking
2009 event archive ‘Roots of Peacemaking: Indigenous Values, Global Crisis’ is the first in an ongoing series of events that include conferences, cultural ex...
Videos
Films on the Doctrine of Discovery
Taking on the Doctrine of Discovery, What are our Next Steps?
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...
What is 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...