In what is being described as a “landmark” 5-4 decision, McGirt v. Oklahoma, the Supreme Court decided today that Congress never violated a 1866 treaty between the free and independent Creek Nation and the United States by explicitly and unilaterally disestablishing the Creek Nation’s territory, which the Supreme Court called “a reservation.” We see incoherent
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The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
At long last, here is our movie directed by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota) and based on my book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (Fulcrum, 2008).
Tecumseh’s Speech
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
The Principle of Prescription
In his book Elements of International Law, first published in 1836, Henry Wheaton pointed out that “the general consent of mankind has established the principle, that long and uninterrupted possession [of land] by one nation excludes the claim of every other.” During the so-called Age of Discovery, the category “mankind” was restricted to Christian Europeans
Colonization and the Human Construction of a Reality System of Domination
Prior to the first voyage of Columbus in 1492, the original nations of the two continents that are now called North and South America (the “Western Hemisphere”) were living completely free and independent. The vast Atlantic Ocean separated those distinct and free nations from Western Christendom (Western Europe). Today, we, as the descendants of our
Are We As Native People Living Inside and Subject to the Mental World of the White Man?
In Red Man’s Land—White Man’s Law (1971), Wilcomb Washburn says he “hopes to describe” what he calls “the process by which the Indian moved from sovereign to ward to citizen.” (emphasis added) It would have been more accurate for him to have said it was the Christian Europeans thoughts and ideas that had “moved” “the
An explanation of the pattern of domination in the Papal Bull “Romanus Pontifex” (Roman Pontiff) issued by Pope Nicholas V in 1454
Below we see yet another example of the background pattern that is brought to the foreground and revealed by using the Domination Translator (the red lettering). According to Reinhard Bendix, in Kings Or People and the Mandate to Rule (1978), p. 254: The papal bull of 1454 granted Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) “the right,
Was the United States Founded As a Democracy?
In his splendid book The Lawless Law of Nations (1925), Sterling E. Edmunds says that governments may be defined as “groups of men possessing arbitrary power over other men.” (p. 426) If Edmunds is right, the idea of “self-government” is not a remedy of much merit for American Indians, for such a system would
The Domination Translator Applied to Some Passages of Pope Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera Papal Decree of May 4, 1493
The Domination Code and Translator The Domination Code is embedded in the English language. The code is just there in the background of our everyday language and our lives. To illustrate this, and to enable us to perform some code-breaking, I’ve created a simple technique that I call ‘The Domination Translator’. The Translator is deployed
The Principle of Prescription
In his book Elements of International Law, first published in 1836, Henry Wheaton pointed out that “the general consent of mankind has established the principle, that long and uninterrupted possession [of land] by one nation excludes the claim of every other.” During the so-called Age of Discovery, the category “mankind” was restricted to Christian Europeans,
The Independence of Native Nations Was Supposedly Ended (“Diminished”)As A Result of the Christian World Becoming Knowledgeable of the Geographical Location of our Nations
One of the most significant sections of the Johnson v. McIntosh ruling of 1823, is Chief Justice John Marshall’s assertion that the Indians’ rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations” had been ended by “Christian people” (original emphasis) becoming knowledgeable of the location of lands inhabited by Native people “who were heathens” (Marshall’s phrase). Marshall
Visiting the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in 1989
Years ago I was visiting the John Carter Brown Library at the Brown University campus. That is where Henry Wheaton went to college. He was the Reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court during the Johnson v. McIntosh ruling of 1823. I went there to do some research about the so-called Age of Discovery, the history