Politics Archives - Original Free Nations

The Doctrine of Christian Domination, the Apache People, and Oak Flat 0
- doctrine of discovery, federal Indian law, History, Legal, News, Politics, Religion
- April 7, 2021
By Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) The Apache Stronghold case, regarding the Apache Sacred Site (Chi’ Chil Bildagoteel) called “Oak Flat,” is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case has created global publicity, and a number of Christian church groups have filed amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs. Those briefs support the Apache
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The Crown (“Corona”) Virus and the Business of America 1
- News, Politics
- April 29, 2020
The Business of America is Business
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The Claim of a Right of Christian Domination 0
- Biblical, Culture, doctrine of discovery, Politics
- May 29, 2019
What has been typically called “The Doctrine of Discovery” is, in my view, more accurately named “The Doctrine of Christian Domination.” The idea of “discovery” is only relevant in the sense of the monarchs of Christendom endeavoring to locate lands that were as yet unknown to the Christian world. Once lands matching that description were
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Tecumseh Speech As Recounted by Simon Pokagon 0
- Biblical, Culture, doctrine of discovery, federal Indian law, Legal, Politics, Religion, Tecumseh-Shawnee Leader
- 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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