Domination Chronicles: Our Opening Conversation

In the first full episode of Domination Chronicles, Steven Newcomb and Peter d’Errico open a conversation shaped by decades of study, friendship, and shared attention to the legal structure of domination. Their starting point is the 1823 decision in Johnson v. McIntosh, where the United States Supreme Court absorbed Christian discovery into property law and federal Indian law.

The episode does more than introduce a podcast. It models a way of reading legal history that refuses to accept domination as neutral background. Newcomb and d’Errico connect the language of discovery to the wider mental world of Christendom, race, gender, law, and worldview. They also place this work alongside cultural projects such as Oyate Woyaka, reminding listeners that language and story remain central to Indigenous life and resistance. The conversation asks what becomes visible when the foundations of U.S. law are read from the standpoint of Native nations’ original free existence.

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