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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...
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...
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...
The Myth of Divine Right and the Doctrine of Discovery
Conventional wisdom holds that the Doctrine of Discovery originated with a series of papal bulls issued by several 15th-Century popes. But it is unlikely tha...
The Regalian Doctrine: The Philippine Case
Introduction The Philippines has over 14-17 million remaining Indigenous peoples belonging to an estimated 110 ethnolinguistic communities (between 10-20% o...
Continuación de la dominación de la Cristiandad: una respuesta a la declaración de repudio del Vaticano a la Doctrina del Descubrimiento - Español
por Betty Lyons, Sandra Bigtree y Philip Arnold English Español Cuando el Vaticano finalmente se dé cuenta de que está sumido en el lodo genocida de siglo...
Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Missing Cover of the Jigsaw Puzzle Permalink
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...
Save the Date: Christian Domination & The Genocide of Turtle Island
Please join us for panel discussion with Philip P. Arnold, Tupac Enrique Acosta, Sandy Bigtree, Joe Heath, Betty Lyons, Tina Ngata. Details Christian Dom...
Save the Date: Christian Domination & The Genocide of Turtle Island
Please join us for panel discussion with Philip P. Arnold, Tupac Enrique Acosta, Sandy Bigtree, Joe Heath, Betty Lyons, Tina Ngata. Details Christian Dom...
Johnson v. M’Intosh, Wi Parata v. Bishop of Wellington, and the Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa-New Zealand Permalink
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...
Christian Control Of Women And Mother Earth: The Doctrine Of Discovery And The Doctrine Of Male Domination
How did the world come to be? How did humans come to be? What is the origin of all living beings? The myth-history of who we are begins with the creation sto...
Continuing Christian Domination: A Response To The Vatican’s Repudiation Of The Doctrine Of Discovery Permalink
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...
Descobrindo o Invisível: A Doutrina do Descobrimento, seu Impacto sobre os Povos Indígenas Brasileiros, sobre o meio ambiente e como ela continua a moldar a paisagem brasileira nos dias de hoje: Portugese
English Portugese Spanish Resumo Apesar de ser um instrumento de colonização e imperialismo mundial, a importância e influência da Doutrina da Descoberta...
Descubrir lo invisible: la doctrina del descubrimiento, su impacto en los pueblos indígenas de Brasil, el medio ambiente y cómo sigue configurando el paisaje brasileño actual: Spanish
English Portugese Spanish Resumen A pesar de ser un instrumento de la colonización global y del imperialismo, la importancia y la influencia de la Doctri...
Uncovering the Invisible: The Doctrine of Discovery, its Impact on the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples, on the environment and how it continues to shape the Brazilian landscape today: English
English Portugese Spanish Abstract Despite being a tool of colonization and imperialism worldwide, the Doctrine of Discovery’s importance and influence h...
The Legacy of the Right to Control Land and Dependency Permalink
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...
Robert J. Miller, The International Law of Colonialism: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Discovery Applied Worldwide Permalink
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...
The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.
The conference will take place at Syracuse University from 8-10 December 2023.
Superseding the Doctrine of Discovery: World Water One
CEMANAHUAC Superseding the Doctrine of Discovery: World Water One www.www.www Ten years since the First Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Internationa...
Johnson v. M’Intosh, Plenary Power, and Our Colonial Constitution Permalink
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...
However, Extravagant The Pretensions Of Johnson V. M’Intosh by Betty Lyons and Adam DJ Brett Permalink
”[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 ...
Oak Flats and the Doctrine of Discovery unprecedented challenge and opportunity
Abstract The case against Resolution Copper’s proposed mine in Oak Flat is an unprecedented opportunity for reckoning with the American ideal of religious f...
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century term designating an expansionist ideology grounded in the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and republican ideals that...
ILP Webinar: Unraveling the International Law of Colonialism: The 200th Anniversary of Johnson v M’Intosh–March 10 2023 Permalink
Johnson v M’Intosh is an 1823 U.S. Supreme Court case about how the Discovery Doctrine was used to justify denying Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples’ l...
World Water One Permalink
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...
Did Pope Alexander VI Authorize England’s Colonization of North America? Permalink
English imperial adventurism did not begin with Alexander. It began with [King] Henry [VII] skirting or directly contradicting Inter caetera. Henry would not...
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....
The Doctrine of Discovery and Christian Zionism
The Doctrine of Discovery (DoD) has a well-documented and researched connection to the colonization of Turtle Island. Its ideology, however, reaches far beyo...
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...
Effectuating Renunciation: An International Effort to Provide a Pathway to Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery
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...
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...
Animal Nations and the Doctrine of Discovery
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...
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 485 U.S. 439
In 1988 the United States Supreme Court declared constitutional the federal government’s development plan in the High Country, aboriginal homeland of the Kar...
Indigenous Consent: A Right Rooted in the Doctrine of Discovery
Consent is a fundamental Indigenous right that exists in a reciprocal relationship with all other Indigenous rights. However, the role of consent is especial...
Reappraising the Doctrine of Discovery
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 ...
City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation, 544 U.S. 197 (2005): THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY AND DOMINATION AND THE DENIAL OF TREATY RIGHTS
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...
How we met the Doctrine of Discovery. A Maya commentary
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...
What Doctrine of Discovery Statements of Religious Repudiation Reveal
Nations formulate doctrines that define and guide their relations toward other nations. The Monroe Doctrine, and the Truman, Carter, and Bush Doctrines are A...
The U.S. Government’s Claim of a Right of Domination
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...
Sublimis Deus, Pastorale Officium and Non Indecens Videtur – A Historical Dive Into the Vatican’s Failure to Rescind the Doctrine of Discovery
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...
City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Doctrine of Discovery.
Ten Religious Themes of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (DoCD) that Contrast with Indigenous Values
With issuance of 15th century Papal Bulls known as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, religion has been used all over the world as a weapon against Indigen...
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...
Sublimis Deus (Sublimis Dei)
On the limits of Sublimis Deus (also called Sublimis Dei).
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...
The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery: Its Fundamental Importance In United States Indian Law And The Need For its Repudiation And Removal
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 ...
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?’
Now Streaming: The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code Permalink
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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...
Mother Earth‘s Pandemic: The Doctrine of Discovery Session Videos
Complete list of all of the talks and bonus content
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly In Mcgirt V. Oklahoma
As promising as this decision is, deeply racist problems remain in US law.Left unsaid by Gorsuch was his, and the court’s, unquestioned acceptance of “plenar...
Mother Earth‘s Pandemic Resources
Resources mentioned durined the sessions.
Embrace Indigenous Values and Remove Iconic Fascist Memorials
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...
Mother Earth‘s Pandemic: The Doctrine of Discovery
This conference will connect the dots between our current pandemic, environmental devastation, the Doctrine of Discovery, and a way forward.
Haudenosaunee Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly of the United Nations, we finally took our place at the tabl...
The Ten Legal Dimensions of the Doctrine of Discovery: The International Law of Colonialism
Here are the 10 elements that I think constitute the Doctrine and are useful in analyzing and comparing how settler-colonizer societies have used this intern...