Repudiations
Repuidations of the Doctrine of Discovery by religious organizations and faith communities
Repuidations of the Doctrine of Discovery by religious organizations and faith communities
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, ...
Read the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada in Mission For Others’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Presbyterian Church in Canada’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
The Papal Bull Inter Caetera of May 4, 1493
Fund the Onondaga Nation School Act Now to Support Indigenous Schools New York State has consistently underfunded the three schools serving Indigenous st...
We have just been awarded a Henry Luce Grant for a 3 year project examining the religious dimensions of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.
And yet, all across Mother Earth, stories reverberate of Indigenous nations and peoples’ resistance and refusal in the face of the settler colonial state. We...
Significant aspects of this research were published in the New York University Review of Law & Social Change (Vol. 20, Number 2, 1993), “The Evidence of ...
Read the Indian Boarding School Initiative document.
Read the Canadian Friends Service Committee statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Mennonite statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Evangelical Church in Canada statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Read the Community of Christ statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
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...
The doctrine of discovery has continued to be the cornerstone of United States Indian law. A series of recent, disturbing decisions by the Supreme Court and ...