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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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Haaland v. Brackeen and the Logic of Discovery Permalink
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....
Order, Economy, and Legality: Johnson v. M’Intosh after Two Hundred Years Permalink
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 ...
The Contemporary Presence of Discovery’s Assertion in Canada Permalink
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...
Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples by Peter d’Errico Permalink
Chief Justice Marshall constructed federal anti-Indian law in three early nineteenth-century cases. First came Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), a property law ...
Introduction to 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Law, Religion, and Native American Lands Permalink
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...
200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Law, Religion, and Native American Lands Permalink
A Canopy Forum Thematic Series March – April 2023 Produced through a partnership between Canopy Forum, the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), and Syracu...
Aucan Huilcaman: Chilean Constitutional Process and its Permanent Denial of the Mapuche Nation Permalink
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...
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 Permalink
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 Permalink
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, ...
Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Act Now to Support Indigenous Schools
Fund the Onondaga Nation School Act Now to Support Indigenous Schools New York State has consistently underfunded the three schools serving Indigenous st...
Acknowledging the Doctrine of Christian Domination
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...
Two Kinds of Beings: The Doctrine of Discovery And Its Implications for Yesterday and Today
‘What is the United States position with respect to its 1863 treaty with the Western Shoshone Indians?’
Oak Flat and Pope Alexander VI’s Papal Decree of Domination in U.S. Law Permalink
Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) Prior to the invasion of this continent (“North America”) by representatives of the monarchs of Western Christendom, the o...
The Original Cancel Culture Permalink
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...
Native American Religious Freedom after Trump Permalink
We should note that from the perspective of Native Americans, religious freedom has never been a good tool.
What Fifteenth-Century Papal Bulls Can Teach Us About Indigenous Identity Permalink
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...
What Fifteenth-Century Papal Bulls Can Teach Us About Indigenous Identity Permalink
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...
Now Streaming: The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code Permalink
The iconic film The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code is now streaming on Vimeo. You can rent or purchase the film. The film is a collabo...
An Exorcism, Junipero Serra, and the Papal Bulls Permalink
Archbishop Cordileone said his ceremony was intended to drive out evil and defend the image of Serra.
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...
Indigenous Peoples, International Law, and Colonialism Lecture Permalink
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...
Mennonite reflections on Mother Earth’s Pandemic
Members of the Mennonite Missions Network attended Mother Earth’s Pandemic: The Doctrine of Discovery conference and did some post events writeup
Forming a “More Perfect Union” Through Indigenous Values Permalink
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...
Misconceptions About McGirt v. Oklahoma Permalink
Federal Indian law displaces the historical ‘starting point’ — the original free existence of Native nations…
How the Vatican encouraged the colonization of Indigenous lands – and enabled the Crown to keep them Permalink
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 Permalink
For decades, Indigenous peoples have demanded the Holy See formally rescind the 15th century papal bulls, or decrees, that gave European kingdoms the reli...
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...