Syracuse University to Host Conference that Addresses Legal and Theological Theory of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
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Submit now Theme: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson V. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Eligibility: There are no hard res...
Continuación de la dominación de la Cristiandad: una respuesta a la declaración de repudio del Vaticano a la Doctrina del Descubrimiento - Español
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...
The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: *Johnson v. M'Intosh* and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.
The conference will take place at Syracuse University from 8-10 December 2023.
Introduction to 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Law, Religion, and Native American Lands
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...
Ten Religious Themes of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (DoCD) that Contrast with Indigenous Values
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...
Call for Authors on the Doctrine of Discovery
We are now accepting applications for partnership and collaboration with The Doctrine of Discovery Project.
On the Papal Bull, Sublimis Deus
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...
The Two Row Wampum: a Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery
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, ...
Inter Caetera
The Papal Bull Inter Caetera of May 4, 1493
Examining the History and Consequences of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
We have just been awarded a Henry Luce Grant for a 3 year project examining the religious dimensions of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.
Roman Catholic Organizations Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery
Roman Catholic Organization Statements Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
What Fifteenth-Century Papal Bulls Can Teach Us About Indigenous Identity
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...
The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery And Domination, Colonizing Indigenous Peoples, And The State Of Maine
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination comprises a worldview and promotes the legal and moral authority justifying the invasion and conquest of n...
How the Vatican encouraged the colonization of Indigenous lands – and enabled the Crown to keep them
Beneath glowering portraits of Balboa, Cortez and other Spanish conquistadors, Mr. Newcomb pored over the familiar Latin phrases, many of which he’d memor...
Pope’s Indigenous tour signals a rethink of mission legacy
For decades, Indigenous peoples have demanded the Holy See formally rescind the 15th century papal bulls, or decrees, that gave European kingdoms the reli...
REVIEW ESSAY The Doctrine of Discovery as a Doctrine of Domination
In JSRNC, independent scholar Joy Greenberg reviewed Pagans in the Promised Land and The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code.
White v. Univ. of Cal.
Aboriginal interest in land generally is described as a tribe’s right to occupy the land.
Onondaga Nation v. NY
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...
Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida
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...
Ottawa v. Logan
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...
Cayuga v. Pataki
We understand Sherrill to hold that equitable doctrines, such as laches, acquiescence, and impossibility, can in appropriate circumstances, be applied to Ind...
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...
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...
Friends General Conference Repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery
Minute on the Doctrine of Discovery, Approved July 25, 2012, New York Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions Silver Bay, New York
Presbyterian Church (USA) Repudiates 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...
Haudenosaunee Statement on 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...
2014 Conference Photo Gallery
2014 conference photo gallery
Doctrine of Christian Discovery: After Repudiation, What Next
Doctrine of Christian Discovery: After Repudiation, What Next? Conference May 24-25 2014 The Skä·noñh — Great Law of Peace Center.
Monroe Doctrine
Excerpts from President James Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823.
Roosevelt Corollary
Roosevelt asserted that European nations should not intervene in countries to the south of the US, however under certain conditions, United States interventi...
Indigenous Statement to the Parliament of World’s Religions
An Indigenous Peoples’ Statement to the World Delivered at The Parliament of the World’s Religions Convened at Melbourne, Australia on the Traditional Lands ...
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
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...
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007
Requerimiento
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...
Patent Granted by Henry VII to John Cabot
By this public document, Henry VII indicated his official, royal support for Cabot’s enterprise.
Treaty of Tordesillas
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 ...
Dum Diversas
Papal Bull Dum Diversas 18 June, 1452
The Bull Romanus Pontifex
The Bull Romanus Pontifex (Nicholas V) January 8, 1454
Johnson v. M’Intosh
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...