Repudiations
Repuidations of the Doctrine of Discovery by religious organizations and faith communities
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S02E04 - The Doctrine of Discovery In The Social Psyche with Tina Ngata Permalink
Ngata highlights two helpful international elements of the Doctrine of Discovery. The first is the international legal principle, and the second is an ...
S02E03 - Johnson v M’intosh and Federal Anti-Indian Law with Peter d’Errico Permalink
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe Moving into a discussion of Chief Justice John Marshall’s cases, including Johnson v M’...
The Church of the Brethern has repuidated the Doctrine of Discovery
The Church of the Brethern has repuidated the Doctrine of Discovery
Baptist World Alliance General Council Resolution 2023.1: Dignity and Justice for Indigenous Peoples
Baptist World Alliance’s statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights on the Doctrine of Discovery Permalink
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...
S02E02 – The International Dimensions of Johnson v. M’Intosh with Robert J. Miller Permalink
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe The episode begins with Miller offering a definition of the Doctrine of Discovery as th...
S02E01 - The Backstory of Johnson v. M’Intosh with Lindsay Robertson Permalink
⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // → Subscribe The episode begins with Prof. Robertson providing the context for Johnson v. M’Intosh,...
Quaker Colonialism: Reflections on the Past and Actions for the Future Reflections on the Past
We understand that the majority of early Friends who settled on this continent were from Western Europe and held a Western European worldview of their relati...
Part 4: Making Common Cause: Imagining Shared Futures
Creating spaces like that of the AMC AfroFeministFutures panel will allow Black feminists to reflect on the legacy of Black feminism, and what futures can lo...
Part 3: Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Foreground an Analysis of Settler Colonialism
The Doctrine of Discovery (DoD, sometimes called the Doctrine of Christian Domination) is considered a major root of settler colonialism globally. The DoD is...
“Revoke the Papal Bulls”: Our Response to the Vatican’s March 30 Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery Permalink
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...
CRFP: Indigenous Peoples express hope and concern at Vatican’s repudiation of Doctrine of Discovery Permalink
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...
Part 2: The beginning of an Analysis of Settler Colonialism Emerges at AMC 2022
Indigenous women from around Africa arrived to traditionally Native land bases that were often in turmoil. If the Indigenous nations of the place were able t...
Undoing the Christian nationalism of the Doctrine of Discovery Permalink
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...
Part 1: The Origins of the Combahee River Collective Statement
50 miles from Charleston, South Carolina, is the mouth of the Combahee River, named for the Indigenous people of the place. It was home to numerous plantatio...