RT @Indigenous_Act
New article up on the #PopeFrancis #repudiation of the #doctrineofdiscovery https://www.indigenousaction.org/no-pardon-for-genocide-rejecting-the-catholic-churchs-repudiation-of-the-doctrine-of-discovery/

Last week there was an item in the news about the #Catholic #Church "repudiating the so-called 'Doctrine of Discovery'", as #CBCRadio put it. My understanding is in line with what Fr #RaymondJdeSouza writes in the article, that the Church never taught such principle as doctrine.

Wikipedia has a fuller discussion of the concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_doctrine .

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#DoctrineOfDiscovery

Last week there was an item in the news about the #Catholic #Church "repudiating the so-called 'Doctrine of Discovery'", as #CBCRadio put it. My understanding is in line with what Fr #RaymondJdeSouza writes in the article, that the Church never taught such principle as doctrine.

Wikipedia has a fuller discussion of the concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_doctrine .

#DoctrineOfDiscovery

The Vatican just struck down the #doctrineofdiscovery. That has major impact on legal precedent all over the world. It is why Native Americans aren't seen as the owners of the land, but merely as occupants. 
 
Ask not who sits at the table. Ask who made the table, and why.

This #apartheid systems of #governance in the #UnitedStates & #Canada which #deprive #Indigenous people of #EqualRights trace back to #white #colonizers initial arrival on #NativeLands - panelists explained.
Utilizing a principle known as the #DoctrineOfDiscovery - #European powers divvied up the world according to which of them first "discovered" the land, ignoring the fact that #IndigenousPeople were already living there.

https://www.tag24.com/science/environment/indigenous-leaders-in-alaska-and-canada-call-for-end-to-colonial-occupation-and-exploitation-2782005-amp

#landback #FirstNations #NativeRights #Justice

The #DoctrineOfDiscovery :
"suffice it to say that the papal “doctrine” — which it never was — was already rescinded by papal decree in 1537 :
“Indians and all other people who may later be discovered by Christians, are by no means to be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property … and that they may and should, freely and legitimately, enjoy their liberty and the possession of their property;”"

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-trudeau-condescendingly-tried-to-make-papal-visit-all-about-him