May 15, 2023
Just before Easter this year, the Pope "repudiated" the Doctrine
of Discovery. In 1823, the Supreme Court ruled that the United
States inherited the right of "discovery" from fifteenth-century
papal bulls. The ruling set a legal justification for conquest and
white supremacy.
Chris Peters, who is Puhlik-lah and Karuk and the president of the
Seventh Generation Fund (@7GenFun), says that
repudiations and apologies don't get Native land back. In this
podcast, we talk about the Doctrine of Discovery and why the very
institution that created it, the Catholic Church, isn't undoing
centuries of law justifying the theft of Indigenous lands,
resources, and lives.
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