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Beginning in 2014, University Chancellor Kent Syverud initiated several measures honoring the Haudenosaunee. One of the measures is the University’s polic...
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Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to our podcast, blog, and conference. As part of the Doctrine of Discovery Project we wanted to do a syllabus s...
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Mapping the Dcotrine of Discovery Zotero Library
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Our Canopy Forum Thematic Series
200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Law, Religion, and Native American Lands
“Introduction to the 200 Years of Johnson v...
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I watch and wonder if we are witnessing the (re)birth of a distinctly American religion. One that shares a kinship and affinity with prior permutations of...
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Remember, if it’s starting to get heated, step out and take a breather, you can always have the kōrero again another day.
TLDR: It’s ok to be Christian, i...
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Anti-Micronesian bias and colonialism are harming efforts to protect and manage waters surrounding U.S. overseas territories in the Pacific Islands. The B...
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Newsflash: Property law in the U.S. is not rooted in the Constitution.
America’s legal foundation for property law (possession), “anti-Indian l...
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While Britain’s American Colonies grew, Native American tribes became increasingly reliant on European powers for trade goods, especially metal objects and f...
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Having been given an exciting opportunity to project manage the cataloguing of the Carleton Papers (record series PRO 30/55), since September 2016 I have ...
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In North America, it’s often assumed that private land ownership not only existed in colonizing cultures but was also universally accepted. Yet English co...
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In 2016 the Vatican, recognizing the need to understand Indigenous religious protocols, invited Indigenous spiritual leaders from around the world to Rome. ...
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Why is it important?
The Doctrine of Discovery is still an important legal concept in Canada today even though it was written hundreds of years ago. Both Fr...
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Newsflash! Property law in the U.S. is not rooted in the Constitution. America's legal foundation for property law (possession), "anti-Indian law" and the ...
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“Kind colonialism” operates on the false idea that colonisation is necessary, beneficial, and inevitable. The reason it became the dominant form of colonisa...
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In the Court of the Conqueror featuring Patty Ortiz with George Emilio Sanchez
Curator & Editor, Cydney P...
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this thesis analyze the perceptions of the Doctrine of Discovery, a religious principle incorporated into law during the Age of Discovery among people wit...
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Translation differences between this new translation and Davenport’s occur more often in tone than in content. Of the latter, the most important is probab...
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“Our nation’s history is rife with such injustices. It is no victory to sanitize the past, but there is a difference between erasing history and redressin...
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Introduction
We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement.
In this podcast episode, ...
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What’s a 15th-century statement from a pope have to do with U.S. land policy today?
In this conversation, Amanda Henderson and Steven Newcomb dive deeper in...
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Sandy Bigtree & Philip Arnold - The Religious Origins of White Supremacy
Today’s discussion is one of profound importance, and I am honored to spea...
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The conversation I am much more interested in, and that I feel is important to have – is an open, and frank conversation about the role Christianity has p...
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Bossen, C. (2024). Political theology, discovery and the roots of the ‘great replacement’. Race & Class, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968241238601.
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Introduction
We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement.
In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and ...
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Introduction
We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement.
In this episode of the Mapping The Doctrine Of Discovery Podcast, hosts Phil Arnold and ...
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Introduction
We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement.
In this podcast episode, hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Joel Harrison, an...
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Introduction
We begin this episode with a land acknowledgement.
This podcast episode is a recording of Law Panel III Federal Anti-Indian Law from the con...
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By William D. Sunderlin, Ph.D., and Robert J. Miller, J.D.
ALBANY, New York | PHOENIX, Arizona | 16 April 2024 (IDN) &emdash; It seems ridiculous that a...
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Civilization and personhood are the intellectual bulwarks for the justification of colonization. The colonizer assumes they are made in the image of their...
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Beginning in 2014, University Chancellor Kent Syverud initiated several measures honoring the Haudenosaunee. One of the measures is the University’s polic...
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But questions nagged at me:
When colonized people participate in the politics of their colonizer, does that signify the end of colonialism or its successful...
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From Land Theft To Land Back The OAS And The Onondaga Nation Land Rights Action
This panel, including Tadodaho Sidney Hill, will review the history of inten...
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We invite everyone to visit the Indigenous Peoples Craft Fair on 17 April 2024 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM on the Eighth Floor of the Church Center of the United...
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Dear Sisters,
We invite you to join us on the 12 April 2024 from 9:00 AM—-3:00 PM on the Second Floor of the Church Center of the United Nations (CCUN) at 7...
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Dear Relatives,
We invite you to join us on the 13-14 April 2024 from 9:00 AM––3:00 PM on the Second Floor of the Church Center of the United Nations (CCUN)...
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The Supreme Court now avoids naming the doctrine, as if that makes the problem go away.
Hester concludes that the labyrinth of “inherent and retained...
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Do you ever wonder how land comes to be privately owned? I wonder all the time. It’s the whole reason for this newsletter. I’m interested in other forms o...
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The “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” podcast—produced in collaboration with Syracuse University and Indigenous Values Initiative—explores how a 15th-century...
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Ithaca, NY- On Sunday, Feb 4th, over 400 Haudenosaunee and US citizens celebrated Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga) culture, the local traditional community, and the...
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Keywords: Settler colonialism, higher education, land grant, the Whipple Report, Onondaga Nation, Syracuse University
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In this article, I exami...
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Challenging the Vatican Papal Bulls of Domination from Original Free Nations Advocates on Vimeo.
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As I reflected on the discussions, I realized that without action, valuable Indigenous knowledge becomes an extracted resource often at the benefit of non...
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The Onondaga Nation And The Haudenosaunee Against The United States Of America
The Onondaga Nation And The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Supplemental Submission ...
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I wanted to get some thoughts written in a place where I could share them, but this post only scratches the surface of what I heard and experienced. One ...
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In the 1823 decision of Johnson v. M’Intosh, Chief Justice John Marshall formulated the international law of colonialism. Known as the Doctrine of Discovery,...
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Ilianna Murphy, a junior at Simpson College who attended the conference, said her biggest takeaway is the importance of listening more to Indigenous people a...
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In this podcast episode, Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Victor Valle, an author a...
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Philip P. Arnold, The Urgency of Indigenous Values, (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2023), ISBN: 9780815638087.
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The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson V. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.
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St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Newcastle, Maine 17th Sunday after Pentecost
September 24, 2023
Living into Christ’s Great Commandment, Our Bapt...
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Robert is discussing the ideas of discovery and control of land through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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The Doctrine of Discovery is a legal and religious concept that has been used for centuries to justify Christian colonial conquest. It advanced the idea t...
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Let us set the context for this discussion. The context begins with the free existence of our Native nations and peoples, extending back to the beginnin...
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Philip P Arnold, a professor of religious studies at Syracuse University and the founding director of Skä·noñh — Great Law of Peace Center, was interviewed o...
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The repudiation, which came in a statement from a bureaucratic office, not Pope Francis himself, said the doctrine had been “manipulated” by colonizers “to j...
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Two workshops 24 and 30/31 May 2023
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious...
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por Betty Lyons, Sandra Bigtree y Philip Arnold
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Cuando el Vaticano finalmente se dé cuenta de que está sumido en el lodo genocida de siglo...
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Given that this interpretive work involves words and ideas, and not physical puzzle pieces, we as Native scholars face an interesting challenge: How do we...
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Please join us for panel discussion with Philip P. Arnold, Tupac Enrique Acosta, Sandy Bigtree, Joe Heath, Betty Lyons, Tina Ngata.
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The presentation of the settlements process as a means for settling the grievances caused by violations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi has more problematic reper...
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When the Vatican finally comes to the realization it is mired in the genocidal mud of centuries of racist exploitation of Indigenous peoples around the world...
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Johnson v. M’Intosh established the precedent that the federal government of the United States had the sole right to negotiate with and extinguish indigenous...
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This international law, called the Doctrine of Discovery today, is made up of ten distinct elements. Common law courts dissect crimes and torts into their un...
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The conference will take place at Syracuse University from 8-10 December 2023.
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Johnson v. M’Intosh was a land dispute, where multiple parties brought competing claims of title. Marshall boiled the case down to one question: can an In...
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”[Tonya] Gonella Frichner, Robert Williams, Jr., Joseph J. Heath, and Peter P. d’Errico have sounded a clarion call for the rescinding and repudiating of ...
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The case against Resolution Copper’s proposed mine in Oak Flat is an unprecedented opportunity for reckoning with the American ideal of religious f...
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Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century term designating an expansionist ideology grounded in the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and republican ideals that...
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Ten years since the First Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery International Conference held at Arizona State University West on April 19-20, 2013, the C...
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English imperial adventurism did not begin with Alexander. It began with [King] Henry [VII] skirting or directly contradicting Inter caetera. Henry would not...
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In this light, I fear that the Brackeen lawsuit is the first in a row of dominoes — if the Court strikes down ICWA, everything else could soon go with it....
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The Doctrine of Discovery (DoD) has a well-documented and researched connection to the colonization of Turtle Island. Its ideology, however, reaches far beyo...
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Johnson’s Lessee v. M’Intosh is an 1823 United States Supreme Court decision that serves as a hinge moment in the legal conquest of Native Americans. The ...
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One of the striking features of chief justice John Marshall’s articulation of the Doctrine of Discovery is the assertion that Indigenous sovereignty and r...
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Chief Justice Marshall constructed federal anti-Indian law in three early nineteenth-century cases. First came Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), a property law ...
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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...
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A Canopy Forum Thematic Series
March – April 2023
Produced through a partnership between Canopy Forum, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), and Syracu...
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On September 8, 2021 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) voted to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery by adopting Motion 048, now Resolu...
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The Chilean political class that converges in the Chamber of Deputies and Senators, not only continue to act in the “old political doctrine of denial of t...
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Democracy: “Democracy didn’t come across on the Mayflower. Indeed not. Nor with the Niña nor Santa Maria. Certainly not. Democracy was here. It was in ful...
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Consent is a fundamental Indigenous right that exists in a reciprocal relationship with all other Indigenous rights. However, the role of consent is especial...
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The European doctrine of discovery principle, recognized as recently as 1986 by a federal district court as a legal fiction, nevertheless remains one of the ...
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This shameful, land mark decision by the Supreme Court was issued just three weeks after the filing of the Onondaga Nation’s Land Rights Action. It was a rem...
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It was an ordinary evening on October 9, 2018 when, scrolling down my mouse wheel randomly looking at posts on Facebook something suddenly caught my attentio...
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Nations formulate doctrines that define and guide their relations toward other nations. The Monroe Doctrine, and the Truman, Carter, and Bush Doctrines are A...
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Joseph Story is regarded as a genius and a giant in the legal profession. His continuing influence on American law was demonstrated for me some years ago whe...
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In our journey of dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery and its horrible legacy, there is a recurring argument from the Catholic church and its supporters, t...
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“They severed our tongues so we couldn’t speak our language then punished us for not being able to speak it.” - Tadodaho
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We are now accepting applications for partnership and collaboration with The Doctrine of Discovery Project.
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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...
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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, ...
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Since the doctrine of discovery has been institutionalized in U.S. Indian law and policy for generations, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, the question a...
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‘What is the United States position with respect to its 1863 treaty with the Western Shoshone Indians?’
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Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) Prior to the invasion of this continent (“North America”) by representatives of the monarchs of Western Christendom, the o...
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The idea that Chief Wahoo is somehow honoring Indigenous peoples and his removal is cancel culture is not only absurd but is the reinforcement of the mind...
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We should note that from the perspective of Native Americans, religious freedom has never been a good tool.
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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...
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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, thr...
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The iconic film The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code is now streaming on Vimeo. You can rent or purchase...
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Archbishop Cordileone said his ceremony was intended to drive out evil and defend the image of Serra.
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The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination comprises a worldview and promotes the legal and moral authority justifying the invasion and conquest of n...
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Robert J Miller, Professor of Law in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University gave a lecture entitled “Indigenous Peoples, Internat...
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Members of the Mennonite Missions Network attended Mother Earth’s Pandemic: The Doctrine of Discovery conference and did some post events writeup
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What better time than now to consider the ancient wisdom of our ancestors who, for thousands of years, sustained a more equitable way of living in proper rel...
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Federal Indian law displaces the historical ‘starting point’ — the original free existence of Native nations…
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Beneath glowering portraits of Balboa, Cortez and other Spanish conquistadors, Mr. Newcomb pored over the familiar Latin phrases, many of which he’d memor...
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For decades, Indigenous peoples have demanded the Holy See formally rescind the 15th century papal bulls, or decrees, that gave European kingdoms the reli...
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With the majority of the country now joining forces with the Black Lives Matter Movement, we have a chance to pause and revisit a very important time in hist...
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“Peace can only be attained when human beings live in proper relationship to the natural world” ~ Tadodaho
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Featured speaker: Tupac Enrique Acosta, Tonatierra
This foundational decolonization webinar addresses the Doctrine of Discovery, the intersection between in...
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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...
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Front cover of Haudenosaunee passport. Photograph: Sid Hill
I’m a citizen of the six nation Haudenosaunee, commonly known as the Iroquois confederacy, one ...
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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...
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Newcomb, Steven T. “The Evidence of Christian Nationalism in Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. McIntosh, and Plenary Power.” NYU Rev....
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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...