Original Free Nations

Tecumseh Speech As Recounted by Simon Pokagon 0
- Biblical, Culture, doctrine of discovery, Legal, Politics, Religion, Tecumseh-Shawnee Leader, Uncategorized
- September 30, 2018
Tecumseh’s Speech: The following is a speech by the great Shawnee leader Tecumseh, as recounted by the Pottawatomie leader, Chief Simon Pokagon. Simon Pokagon wrote: “My father and many others who listened to the speeches of Tecumseh many times repeated to me his words when I was a boy, but it was impossible to give
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Research of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery 1
- Archive, Biblical, Culture, doctrine of discovery, Legal, News, Politics, Religion
- September 29, 2018
As a young Shawnee, Lenape person trying to gain a better understanding of history, I first learned about the doctrine of discovery when I was living in Southern California. I decided to read Vine Deloria’s book God is Red when it was published in 1972. I was nineteen or twenty years years old when I
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When Our Native Nations Were Living Free and Independent of the Ideas of Christendom 0
- Biblical, Politics, Religion
- February 26, 2018
Prior to Columbus’s invasive arrival to our part of Mother Earth, our nations of Great Turtle Island (“North America”) were living in a physical location that was entirely free and independent of the Western Christendom’s system of domination. At that time, our nations were still free and independent of all the ideas and mental activities
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The Biblical Basis of federal Indian law & policy 1
- Biblical, Legal, Religion
- February 23, 2018
I have often wondered why federal Indian law attorneys dare not mention the crusading tradition of the United States against “heathens” and “infidels,” namely, American Indian nations. The Western Shoshone Nation is directly challenging this tradition in court and in the U.S. Congress. Their challenge brings to light the strange and startling fact that U.S.
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Face to Face with Pope Francis to Get the Inter Caetera Papal Bull Revoked 2
- Culture, Religion
- February 1, 2018
On May 4, 1493 Pope Alexander VI issued the Inter Caetera papal bull which called for non-Christian nations to be reduced and subjugated (“barbare nationes deprimantur”). On May 4, 2013, 200 years after our great Shawnee leader Tecumseh fell in battle on October 5, 1813, Dr. Debra Harry (Paiute Nation), Sharon Venne (Cree Nation, Treaty Six) and
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Toward a Future of Colonial Freedom 1
- Archive
- November 14, 2016
When people these days discuss the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, they have no idea that seventy years ago, just before the end of World War II, such a document was already being envisioned. What was being focused on back then, however, was the “colonial problem,” which was a subject
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