Repudiations
Repuidations of the Doctrine of Discovery by religious organizations and faith communities
Recent posts
Nations Are Sovereign: They Are Not ‘Tribes’
Interestingly, despite over two centuries of difficulties in this area, in this historic agreement the state accepted the Haudenosaunee as Nations and used t...
Christian Reformed Church
Read the Christian Reformed Church statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
DiCaprio and ‘The Revenant:’ Indigenous Wisdom and Human Survival
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...
My six nation Haudenosaunee passport is not a ‘fantasy document’
Front cover of Haudenosaunee passport. Photograph: Sid Hill I’m a citizen of the six nation Haudenosaunee, commonly known as the Iroquois confederacy, one ...
Stand for Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Renounce the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’
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...
The Evidence of Christian Nationalism in Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. McIntosh, and Plenary Power Permalink
Newcomb, Steven T. “The Evidence of Christian Nationalism in Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. McIntosh, and Plenary Power.” NYU Rev....
Teaching “Native American Religions” in Central New York
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...