Archive Keyword: doctrine-of-christian-discovery
A Postscript: Sovereignty is Still the Issue
Adam DJ Brett; Betty Hill (Lyons); Nethanial Belmont
This postscript argues Indigenous nations need full sovereignty, rejecting settler carve-outs and urging a healing return to precolonial...
View ArticleAn Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”
Steven J. Schwartzberg
Steven J. Schwartzberg urges Americans to overturn Federal Indian Law by confronting the colonial assumptions that still shape U.S....
View ArticleAn Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Royal Supremacy
Phillip Rodgers-Falk
Phillip Rodgers-Falk argues that native title and colonial sovereignty preserve Indigenous subordination through terra nullius and racial...
View ArticleConclusion: Dismantling the Doctrine of Christian Discovery Cultivating Right Relations
Philip P. Arnold; Sandra Bigtree; Adam DJ Brett
The conclusion calls for decolonization beyond legal reform, centering Indigenous law, land return, and right relations to resist Christian...
View ArticleMy Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination
Steven T. Newcomb
Steven Newcomb reflects on decades studying Christian Discovery, showing how law and language normalized domination over Native nations for...
View ArticleRight & Respectful Relations: A Memoir of the Road to the Historic Yakama Nation Amicus Brief Challenging ‘Christian Discovery’ in Washington State V. Cougar Den
Jode Goudy
Jode Goudy recounts how the Yakama Nation built a historic amicus brief, connecting treaty rights, sovereignty, and opposition to Christian...
View Article“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage
Danielle S. Nagle
Nagle critiques Erie Canal heritage marketing, showing how engineered marvel obscures Haudenosaunee dispossession and calls settlers to...
View ArticleA Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses”
Philip P. Arnold; Sandra Bigtree; Adam DJ Brett
Preface to a special issue examining Christian Discovery’s role in white supremacy, law, and education, with decolonial paths grounded in...
View ArticleCharting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose
Sebastian Modrow
Modrow shows how papal bulls transformed crusade theology into global colonial strategy, legitimizing Indigenous dispossession and imperial...
View ArticleIntroduction
Philip P. Arnold; Sandra Bigtree; Adam DJ Brett
Introduction to a global volume on Christian Discovery, linking law, religion, and pedagogy, with Indigenous sovereignty and decolonial...
View ArticleUnselling the Classroom: Confronting History and Ourselves
Elaina Berlin
Berlin urges teachers to confront settler colonialism and white supremacy by centering Indigenous history critical pedagogy, and...
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