The authors claim that healing can begin when such beliefs are unsettled.Īn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. The fifteenth century official church edict allowed European Christians the right to claim as unoccupied the territories they “discovered” and was subsequently institutionalized as an implicit national framework that justifies American triumphalism, white supremacy, and ongoing injustice.Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, by Mark Charles and Soong-Chang Rah. Even if sometimes unconscious, Newcome argues it violates the doctrine of separation of church and state and still continues in influence today. Mentioned as one of the books influential in the General Convention decision to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery in 2009, Newcome demonstrates how the religious concepts of Christendom have been used to justify the taking of Indian land and denial of independence.Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, by Steven T. Rachel Taber-HamiltonĪnnotations by Sue Tait, Director of Diocesan Resource Center Doctrine of Discovery
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