Steven T. Newcomb

Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is the co-founder and director of the Indigenous Law Institute, and author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (Fulcrum, 2008). He co-produced the documentary movie “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” (2015), which is based on Pagans and his four decades of research.

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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, throughout the world, the present-day context and conditions experienced by “Indigenous” nations and peoples is an outgrowth of the patterns of domination and dehumanization expressed in those many documents issued centuries ago by the Holy See.

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Steven T. Newcomb, "What Fifteenth-Century Papal Bulls Can Teach Us About Indigenous Identity," Doctrine of Discovery Project (13 December 2020), https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/what-fifteenth-century-papal-bulls-can-teach-us-about-indigenous-identity/.

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